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Comments on Should [status-completed] be used before the changes are live?

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Should [status-completed] be used before the changes are live?

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As of the time of writing, this request has the [status-completed] tag despite the change not being live yet. It is completely developed, sure, but since it is not yet deployed, should the request be marked completed?

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A tag on the community meta should reflect the status as experienced by the community. A change in tag should communicate a change in experience. This allows users to provide feedback (it's working, it's not) rather than being unsure whether or not the new functionality is live because it might still be living in deployment limbo.

Comparing timestamps on deployment and update is non-intuitive. We should follow the principle of least astonishment and let status-complete mean complete from the view of the end user.

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pnuts‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago
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"Meta's tags are mainly used as a way for the site builders and administrators to keep track of what is completed or not" your words. A PR seems "job done" as far as a site builder is concerned.

elgonzo‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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@pnuts, yes, Sigma's words. Sigma even says explicitly here in the answer: "...and let status-complete mean complete from the view of the end user". What Sigma wrote here is not in contradiction to what has been written in the answer you linked to. "keep track of what is completed or not" does not necessarily imply a different meaning of "completeness" than what Sigma wrote here.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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I can live with a little delay in the interest of making things easier for the developers, -1. While not perfect, Status-Completed when the code has been changed is good enough for me. Otherwise, the developers have to remember to come back to find outstanding "Code-updated" (or whatever) and change them to "Status-Implemented". I would rather keep it simple for the volunteers doing the work.

pnuts‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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@elgonzo I suspect anything other than a space immediately after 'username' (immediately following@) does not ping. (And two or more word usernames might need to have the spaces removed.)

Moshi‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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@Olin Lathrop are you fine with "a little delay" of a couple days?

pnuts‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago
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@Moshi For something as minor as 'Staff' flags in the User List I'd be fine with quite a lot longer, while things are as busy as they are at present. BTW My apologies for the bother I caused you over a now deleted Q.

Moshi‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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@pnuts I was less worried about how minor it was than about how confusing it was. When I saw that it was marked "completed", I was actually going to post a bug report since the change didn't show up for me (but thankfully when I was linking the post in the report I saw the clarification that it wasn't live yet)

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago
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are you fine with "a little delay" of a couple days? Certainly. Even longer is fine usually, once we know the feature has been added or bug fixed, and it's just a matter of getting thru the pipeline. This is especially true for trivial features like the one you linked to in your question.

elgonzo‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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@pnuts oh, i wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the advice, appreciated!