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Bug 19699 - Deploy LiquidThreads extension when ready (tracking)
Deploy LiquidThreads extension when ready (tracking)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Extension setup (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: tracking
Depends on: 19388 20118 21956 22909 23220 23417 24143 24377 24616 24971 25019 25121 25435 25609 25761 25852 25970 25988 27937 28848 29114 29759 33635 37778
Blocks: tracking
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Reported: 2009-07-13 18:35 UTC by Brion Vibber
Modified: 2013-10-05 17:41 UTC (History)
20 users (show)

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Description Brion Vibber 2009-07-13 18:35:07 UTC
To be determined... ;)
Comment 1 p858snake 2010-08-09 14:57:36 UTC
Turning this into a mini tracking buglet.

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Adding andrew to cc
Adding blockers
Adding keyword
Comment 2 Andrew Garrett 2010-08-17 11:03:40 UTC
Now ready to deploy to smaller sites, on the condition that the namespaces are localised.
Comment 3 Rob Lanphier 2010-12-31 20:57:04 UTC
Brandon and Andrew, is it still appropriate to ask Ops to get through this backlog, or do you prefer they hold off until the next version of LQT?
Comment 4 Brandon Harris 2010-12-31 21:07:36 UTC
I'd prefer to hold off.
Comment 5 Lars Aronsson 2011-01-16 21:48:49 UTC
"Next version", what does that mean? Should a new dependency be recorded? Swedish Wiktionary (bug 25761) has now waited 2 months. How many man-hours does the activation take for one site? Why is that part complicated?
Comment 6 Roan Kattouw 2011-01-21 03:42:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> "Next version", what does that mean? Should a new dependency be recorded?
> Swedish Wiktionary (bug 25761) has now waited 2 months. How many man-hours does
> the activation take for one site? Why is that part complicated?
Activation takes less than one man-hour, that's not the problem. I think Brandon wants to hold off because significant parts of LQT are being refactored and redesigned in the coming weeks/months.
Comment 7 Jan Kucera (Kozuch) 2011-01-21 07:05:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Brandon wants to hold off because significant parts of LQT are being refactored
> and redesigned in the coming weeks/months.

We will get nowhere if we try do deploy some kind of "perfect" software.
Comment 8 Brandon Harris 2011-01-21 08:04:21 UTC
I am not willing to deploy to other wikis with the current version of the software.  There will be a new version within the next several weeks.  

Note that my opinion means doodley-squat with this.  I have no authority to hold up deployments.  I am, however, saying that *if you wait for just a little bit* then what we deploy will be *significantly better*. 

So take that for what it is.
Comment 9 Lars Aronsson 2011-01-21 17:36:57 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> I am, however, saying that *if you wait for just a little
> bit* then what we deploy will be *significantly better*. 

Swedish Wikisource already uses LQT and is perfectly happy,
even though it took 4 months between request and activation.
If the software is improved, I assume this would take effect
there too. So what's the problem to activate the current
version on Swedish Wiktionary? If it takes one man-hour,
the WMF should be happy to pay for this. We have spent far
more than one man-hour establishing community consensus
and debating these bug reports.
Comment 10 Andrew Garrett 2011-01-21 19:49:08 UTC
Hi all,

I've been thinking about this and having discussions with Erik, Alolita and others.

As you know, LiquidThreads is undergoing major re-engineering, including updates to both the architecture and the user interface (documentation is being uploaded to MediaWiki.org as it is finished). You can find full details of this project at MediaWiki.org. [1] Having the old version of LiquidThreads in production adds complexity to the migration process that will occur once re-engineering is complete. It also means that engineering time would need to be spent supporting and maintaining the older version. This would distract from the development work that is currently in progress on LiquidThreads. Being the lead developer for LiquidThreads, my priority remains to focus on the re-engineering work that we are doing, so that we can start piloting the new version as soon as possible (hopefully by the end of March).

Accordingly, it is our decision that further pilot deployment of LiquidThreads instances is placed on hold for the time being. LiquidThreads re-engineering will hopefully be finished in two to three months, and at that point we will be very pleased to roll out pilots to additional wikis.

Thanks for your understanding,
Andrew

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads/Q1_2011_re-engineering
Comment 11 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2011-01-26 19:16:15 UTC
Andrew, do you know if LQT will be deployed across all projects?  If so, I will close all pending requests in bugzilla (pointing to this bug).
Comment 12 Andrew Garrett 2011-01-26 19:18:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> Andrew, do you know if LQT will be deployed across all projects?  If so, I will
> close all pending requests in bugzilla (pointing to this bug).

Ashar,

My understanding of the plan is that we will be deploying pilots on various projects (on an opt-in basis) before a global deployment. So the bugs can remain open for the time being. When we're ready to deploy, we can check with those communities that they still want to be a part of our pilot, and proceed with deployments.

Thanks,

Andrew
Comment 13 SergeyJ 2011-01-27 09:20:24 UTC
Please, when it will be ready don't forget about us.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25121
Comment 14 Niklas Laxström 2011-01-27 09:28:31 UTC
I hope the new version actually fixes most of the long standing problems that are present in the current version.
Comment 15 TeleComNasSprVen 2011-04-05 19:35:23 UTC
Adding tracking bug to the (main) tracker bug 2007.
Comment 16 Brion Vibber 2011-07-01 00:31:01 UTC
*** Bug 29657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Siebrand Mazeland 2012-10-28 11:56:56 UTC
Closing this tracking bug. Lqt has been "ready", all dependencies have been closed. 

If you read this: Please consider giving *any* of the 120 or so open Lqt bugs some love.
Comment 18 Helder 2012-10-28 12:02:36 UTC
It is "ready" but not "deployed". Most of the requests to deploy it are still marked as "LATER" not as "FIXED".
Comment 19 Nemo 2012-10-28 20:52:30 UTC
It's not (no longer) ready, which is why it's not further deployed.
Comment 20 Nemo 2012-11-14 12:19:00 UTC
Switching from LATER to the second most relevant resolution for fear of information loss. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/65116
Comment 21 Jan Kucera (Kozuch) 2012-12-03 10:05:48 UTC
Why was the development cancelled? Dont we need better discussion system on wikis to have bigger editor engagement?
Comment 22 Andre Klapper 2012-12-03 10:18:21 UTC
Jan: Sure we need, and that's worked on. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow
Comment 23 Nemo 2012-12-03 10:35:22 UTC
See [[mw:Thread:Talk:Flow/LiquidThreads?]] for context.
James has written elsewhere that work on Flow (not LQT3) will start in the second half of 2013, if I remember correctly; in the meanwhile we're not seeing any bug fix or improvement to LQT2 by the WMF, only new issues, <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:LiquidThreads&diff=593948&oldid=593256> so it's quite sure that LQT will not be enabled on any more wiki, but some pseudo-replacement will (in a couple years?).
Comment 24 Jan Kucera (Kozuch) 2012-12-03 11:05:01 UTC
Do we really need YEARs to develop a simple discussion system? That seems absurd to me... Flow is only targeted at User:Talk - that is great... so we will again be stuck with unusable discussions at article talk pages. This will never bring better editor engagement...
Comment 25 Andre Klapper 2012-12-03 11:18:08 UTC
Feel free to contact the corresponding developers or ask on a mailing list. In a bug report categorized as setting up extensions (handled by people with shell access) it's very unlikely that developers of some specific extension will see your questions.

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