Last modified: 2012-12-31 17:35:55 UTC
CodeReview doesn't take account of $wgDBReadOnly Can update to newer revisions, post comments etc, whilst apparently the DB is readonly...
there's currently a live hack in 1.17wmf1 for this -http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/97670
(In reply to comment #1) that's a lie - wrong bug.