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Recommendation about types of releases for the Technical Collaboration Guidance
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There are several different routes to release a new feature to Wikimedia projects:

#1. Release as a beta feature (mw:Beta Features/Package has criteria for release and graduation)
#2. Release as an opt-in preference
#3. Release with an opt-out preference
#4. Release for logged-in vs anonymous
#5. Default release for everyone with no opt-out

Other?

It would be useful to have a recommendation about what type of release to use in which situation, documented in the Technical Collaboration Guidance.

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Qgil created this task.Sep 14 2016, 3:59 PM
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Trizek-WMF subscribed.Sep 14 2016, 4:33 PM

I guess "beta feature" means "trial" and "opt-in preference" is the "Beta feature" as it is on your preferences on wikis?

Quiddity subscribed.Sep 14 2016, 11:57 PM
In T145656#2637335, @Trizek-WMF wrote:

I guess "beta feature" means "trial" and "opt-in preference" is the "Beta feature" as it is on your preferences on wikis?

Not quite,

Trizek-WMF added a comment.Sep 15 2016, 1:34 PM

Thanks Nick. I think these definitions should be attached to the 5 points then.

Qgil triaged this task as Low priority.Sep 27 2016, 2:18 PM
Qgil updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 5 2016, 7:12 AM
Qgil renamed this task from Recommendation about types of releases for the Technical Collaboration Guideline to Recommendation about types of releases for the Technical Collaboration Guidance.May 12 2017, 10:14 AM
Qgil updated the task description. (Show Details)
Qgil mentioned this in T165143: Document best practices to graduate beta features to production.May 12 2017, 10:21 AM
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