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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015#Schedule Monday 26, 1:00pm The existing ways of releasing user-facing features have proved to have severe limitations during the Media Viewer release. As someone who went through that storm, I feel like many of the organizational issues we encountered haven't been addressed yet. This is a critical issue, as years of hard work can potentially get a very hostile response when the release date comes, and unprepared engineers can find themselves with a big crisis to handle with many hotfixes to produce in a short period of time. While some areas have been improved since, such as the introduction of the design research team as a way to validate changes, much still has to be discussed. Slides: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1zAiBdDZnw1-JXWKkYlM1U8GdpuRuL5zaNCx5S9mWRoQ/edit#slide=id.g61bd20667_10 Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/user-facing-feature-release-discussion

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015#Schedule Monday 26, 1:00pm The existing ways of releasing user-facing features have proved to have severe limitations during the Media Viewer release. As someone who went through that storm, I feel like many of the organizational issues we encountered haven't been addressed yet. This is a critical issue, as years of hard work can potentially get a very hostile response when the release date comes, and unprepared engineers can find themselves with a big crisis to handle with many hotfixes to produce in a short period of time. While some areas have been improved since, such as the introduction of the design research team as a way to validate changes, much still has to be discussed. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zAiBdDZnw1-JXWKkYlM1U8GdpuRuL5zaNCx5S9mWRoQ/edit?usp=sharing Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/user-facing-feature-release-discussion

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015#Schedule Monday 26, 1:00pm The existing ways of releasing user-facing features have proved to have severe limitations during the Media Viewer release. As someone who went through that storm, I feel like many of the organizational issues we encountered haven't been addressed yet. This is a critical issue, as years of hard work can potentially get a very hostile response when the release date comes, and unprepared engineers can find themselves with a big crisis to handle with many hotfixes to produce in a short period of time. While some areas have been improved since, such as the introduction of the design research team as a way to validate changes, much still has to be discussed. Slides: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1zAiBdDZnw1-JXWKkYlM1U8GdpuRuL5zaNCx5S9mWRoQ/edit#slide=id.g61bd20667_10?usp=sharing Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/user-facing-feature-release-discussion