On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflasc...@wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Yes, it does.  Unless the entire branch has a serious problem (500s or
> major caching problems, etc.), we don't generally switch the entire branch
> back.
>
> That means the only option is fix or revert a commit.  The general rule is
> to do changes in master before cherry-picking to the branch.
>

What you're saying is that the software development process for MediaWiki
is so tightly coupled with the operations deployment process, that
development has to be held up because of problems in operations. That's a
problem.

*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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