Yesterday Wikidot team worked heavily on fixing bugs reported on Feedback Site. We fixed six bugs and solved few other internal issues with servers and infrastructure. Now there are only seven (non-critical) bugs left on the list.
We thought it could be a good idea to make Tuesday the day of fixing bugs. This would give us a stricter workflow and our users would know that most of the bugs are fixed on Tuesdays. This mainly applies to long-standing bugs and little annoyances we hate so much, as urgent bugs are fixed as soon as possible anyway.
Why Tuesday and not e.g. Friday? We have a lot of stuff to do on Monday after the weekend: current maintenance, replying to emails, checking stats and server's health, reading notifications etc. Just after the Monday we are on our highest revs and it's the best time to make use of team's productivity. Thursday is a day when we're making plans for next week, implementing new features, tweaking infrastructure, doing internal stuff, papers, invoices etc.
On Friday we can experiment with some crazy ideas that comes in Thursday's brainstorming.
And since the summer holiday is over the whole team is back so we are back to the weekly schedule.
We've been busy today too. We fixed long-standing problem with redirecting users from wdfiles.com domain back to original sites and simplified user interface for leaving anonymous comments. We've also made a few fixes to comparing differences between revisions.
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Any day is a good day for fixing bugs, The fact that you're giving them extra focus on Tuesdays is a good thing. I still miss "Rant Tuesdays" though… :)
Community Admin
*twitch* did you say…..RANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice to hear what's going on. It's good to know our sites are in good hands :)
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Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
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It looks like category doc-include (e.g., http://www.wikidot.com/doc-include:page-selection) does not have History, Discuss, etc enabled…?
Indeed, it's enabled now.
Bartłomiej Bąkowski @ Wikidot Inc.
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Could some other bugs have been introduced? Access to wikidot has been extremely slow this afternoon, and things like LaTeX and some plugins are not loading: see for example http://amiii0.wikidot.com/1-curvas.
So, for the first time, I could not use it in some classes I was lecturing this afternoon. I hope you can solve it before Monday (where I would like to use the site again as part of the presentation) and, more importantly, find ways to avoid such a behaviour in the future.
Can it be from the place where I'm accessing the site (my university)? Though in the past I have already accessed from there (both wireless or using cable) and everything worked fine!
Otherwise I've been quite happy with your service:-)
It's not only you… seems most of the wiki network is affected :( Pictures not loading, css down (site layout), slow and almost unresponsive loading. Looks like one of the servers crashed or the fixes of the 15th did more damage then good. Hope it will be up and running tomorrow (in 8 hours) because we use a private wiki site at work as information tool / intranet !
I hope so Michal ;)
Henrie van den Brink
Lot of us ( the users) have problems with wdfiles part - no CSS, no pictures loading..
some of us have & had ( like myself per chance ?) no problems… but this is strange and not good.
Seems to goo over all platforms and browsers…
Could be the amazon cloud makes problems ?
Here is the community - Thread over this issue:
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-265627/what-is-going-on#post-875019
Please - have a look!
Regards
Helmut
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
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Thanks, it is strange. See my reply at: http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-265627/what-is-going-on#post-875324
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
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Wow, at the moment there's only one open bug at the feedback site, and that's about documentation.
That's impressive!
Edit: just filed a bug so now there's two bugs :)
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