The Signpost

Technology report

Code reviewers, October Engineering update, brief news

More developers to review code

Following Brion Vibber's temporary rehiring (see last week's Signpost), and with the absence of the only previous code reviewer (developer Tim Starling) imminent, another measure was last week taken by the Foundation to unblock bottlenecks in the code review process. Rob Lanphier (User:RobLa) announced that, partly because of Tim's absence, and partly "because we're long overdue for distributing the load", there would be an expansion in the number of users able to take part in the "code review" process, which defines the time it takes for new code to get from the sandbox into a live Wikimedia site, or in some cases a MediaWiki release version (wikitech-l mailing list).

October update on WMF Engineering

The Foundation has published a draft version of what its focuses have been over the past month in terms of "major development and operations initiatives" (MediaWiki.org):

This is a monthly follow-up post to September's WMF Engineering update; for October's, collaboration was invited (unsuccessfully).

In brief

Not all fixes may have gone live to WMF sites at the time of writing; some may not be scheduled to go live for many weeks.


















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