On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:10 AM Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I understand the Friday is a buffer, but it's not
a great buffer,
particularly now
I don't have any suggestions, as I am not super-familiar with the current
situation, but I can understand (and suffered) from some hidden bugs (not
immediately obvious) taking some time to surface and/or reach the right
people, but I have some questions:
* How often are issues surfaced in the group0 -> group1 vs group1 ->
group2, are there any stats to back the need for a change there?
* Without changing the actual deploying days or the frequency, would there
be any benefit of shifting the deploy over multiple weeks? (random example
Tu: group1->group2, (new branch) We: group0, Th: group0-> group1) or would
that make things worse?
* You mention commons. I am guessing Commons, and Wikidata, to some extent-
are both large sites with a lot of visibility but also very different from
the core features that are similar to most other wikis, but the test
version of those on group0 may not be enough to catch all issues. Is there
something that could be improved specifically for those sites?
* Can we do something to improve the speed from "a user notices an issue
with the site" to "the right team/owner is aware of it and acts on it"?
--
Jaime Crespo
<http://wikimedia.org>