[Engineering] [Ops] The train will resume tomorrow (was Re: All wikis reverted to wmf.8 last night due to T119736)

Wed Jul 13 05:48:32 UTC 2016

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:15 AM, aude <aude.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Ori Livneh <ori at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Our failure to react to this swiftly and comprehensively is appalling and
>> embarrassing. It represents failure of process at multiple levels and a lack
>> of accountability.
>
>
> This (unbreak now) bug has been open since November.  I wonder how this has
> been allowed to remain open and not addressed for this long?
>

I am sure we could've done way better even in our current structure,
but it's pretty clear to me that the absence of a team dedicated to
MediaWiki itself calls for such things to happen.

Which is pretty absurd, when you remember that 99% of our traffic is
still served by it.

Cheers

G.
-- 
Giuseppe Lavagetto, Ph.d.
Senior Technical Operations Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation