On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Niharika Kohli <nko...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Also, I think dropping the limit to 4 patches per window is extreme, > especially if we are asking people to start splitting their patches now. > Very often we can +2 multiple patches in one go if they don't affect each > other, or sync out changes together if they happen to the same file. I've > deployed 8 patches in a window often, with people asking if they can add > more yet. Due to timezone limitations, most people can only attend one of > the SWAT windows and if they can't get it out in that window, they have to > wait a whole day or more to get it out. > FWIW, here are some stats on the patch counts for the first three months of 2018 (might contain errors, tried not to spend too much time on it): EU mid: 8, 6, 2, 10, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 9, 6, 10, 2, 1, 1, 8, 7, 5, 5, 5, 2, 7, 6, 8, 4, 7, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 4, 3, 3, 2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 1 (average: 4.25, max of 2-week rolling average: 5.7) Morning: 7, 1, 1, 5, 1, 3, 4, 1, 6, 3, 4, 3, 3, 5, 6, 4, 3, 5, 8, 4, 5, 4, 3, 0, 3, 1, 5, 9, 2, 1, 3 (average: 3.6, max of 2-week rolling average: 5) Evening: 8, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 5, 1, 6, 1, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 0, 9, 10, 5, 4, 1, 6, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3 (average: 2.8, max of 2-week rolling average: 4.75) ie. if the new policy was introduced at the start of the year, it would have caused at least a two-week delay in all three SWAT windows at one point at least, and it would have caused an ever-growing backlog of patches for EU mid-day. (That's without taking the split patch requirement into account, it's hard to tell how many patches that would have affected.) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l