On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Happy-melon <happy-melon(a)live.com> wrote:
"Brion
Vibber" <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote in message
news:BANLkTinZzef=oRVuw9dWiCVAHYBUWXniqg@mail.gmail.com...
Sing it, brother! We're getting *some* stuff through quicker within the
deployment branches, but not nearly as much as we ought to.
The fact that some things are *not* getting stuck in the CR quagmire is
part
of the *problem*, not the solution. The upper levels of the developer
hierarchy ***obviously know*** that the mainline CR process is
substantially
broken, BECAUSE ***THEY'RE NOT USING IT*** FOR THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO
THEM.
That's not correct -- the same code review tools are being used to look over
and comment on those things, AND THEN THE DAMN THING ACTUALLY GETS MERGED TO
THE DEPLOYMENT BRANCH BY SOMEBODY AND PUSHED TO PRODUCTION BY SOMEBODY.
It's that step 2 that's missing for everything else until the accumulated
release pressure forces a system-wide update.
The unavoidable implication of that observation is that the work of
the volunteer developers *DOESN'T* matter to them.
Whether or not that
implication is correct (I have confidence that it's not) is irrelevant, the
fact that it's there is what's doing horrible damage to the MediaWiki
community.
-- brion