Code push scheduled for Sunday night

[karzilla]

We are planning to do a code push late this weekend, at approximately 8pm PDT / 11pm EDT / 3am UTC on Sunday, Apr 30 (or May 1 for you transatlantic types.).

I don't have a list of changes for you yet, but most will fall into the following categories: things users have complained about to support volunteers, things support volunteers have complained about to developers, things denise has complained about not working the way she expects them to (and as we all know, The Boss is Always Right), and things that were printing warnings over and over in the production server logs, making it hard to spot when less frequent, more urgent errors were being printed. Oh, and also all the unused code I ripped out at the roots, which if you notice that, I did it wrong.

To sum up: we are rolling out a bunch of requested changes, so thank you all for your feedback!

If you're new to Dreamwidth and interested in tracking our development process, our commit logs are published to changelog and changelog_digest, and every month or so, one of our volunteers will translate those often-cryptic entries into witty, informative code tours! The most recent one was published on April 1, so we're about due for a new one. Hint, hint.

We'll update here again to let you know when the code push is imminent!

Comments

[beasts_of_homeworld]

thank you for the update!

also thanks for mentioning changelog and changelog_digest, we hadn't heard of them yet and they sound awesome!

we've been meaning to mention an accessibility issue for a while now and haven't had the spoons. should we put that here, if we can? or try to drop it into dw_accessibility before the code push? or something else? it's just wording-related so not really much of a thing on your end, we'd imagine.

thanks so much for all you folks do, and for keeping us in the loop! <3

[azurelunatic]

Here's likely good, but if you'd prefer to do it in a more private venue, you can submit a Support request (Site Interface) here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/submit (or email support @ dreamwidth . org if that's easier for you folks).


(Hmm. Maybe time to update my icons so they're a little less LJ-y...)

[arethinn]

Apropos of nothing, is the icon you used on this comment supposed to remind one of Rorschach?

[azurelunatic]

The resemblance is unintentional, if somewhat uncanny. It's intended more as a "many small users inside a regular size user" concept.

[beasts_of_homeworld]

thankyou very much, everyone. or not everyone, if only one person was commenting or you prefer to be addressed as a unit. or other. *friendly grin* we try not to assume things about people. your advice and encouragement was very helpful and really appreciated. in the end we managed to add another comment to this post so that's where the feedback ended up.

(maybe! it's a great icon, but yes very LJ-y. perhaps you could make a version with the dw userhead? it'd be less eyecatching but also less busy-looking. or maybe all the little userheads could be different colours... hmmm, now we're feeling like experimenting with making something like that, ourselves... *grin*)