I got permission from Reuben Smith of wikihow and WMF release manager Greg
Grossmeier to re-post this exchange.
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Reuben Smith of wikiHow asked:
We're having a hard time figuring out whether we should be basing our
wikiHow
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to keep
current JS/CSS and cached HTML output compatible (for at least 30 days), while
release branches never contain them (and thus require HTML caches to be purged
during the upgrade process).
This usually only affects changes
On 20/02/14 21:32, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to
keep current JS/CSS and cached HTML output compatible (for at least 30
days), while release branches never contain them (and thus require
HTML caches to be purged during the upgrade
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote:
It would require pretty consistent maintenance of their own, but it could be
worth it.
IOW, you need to hire a Greg Grossmeier :)
-Jeremy
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quote name=Bartosz Dz. date=2014-02-20 time=22:32:42 +0100
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to
keep current JS/CSS and cached HTML output compatible (for at least 30
days), while release branches never contain them (and thus require
HTML caches to be purged
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Reuben Smith of wikiHow asked:
We're having a hard time figuring out whether we should be basing our
wikiHow code off Mediawiki's external releases (such as the latest 1.22.2),
or off the branches that WMF
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:21:37 +0100, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
quote name=Bartosz Dz. date=2014-02-20 time=22:32:42 +0100
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to
keep current JS/CSS and cached HTML output compatible (for at least 30
days), while
quote name=Ryan Lane date=2014-02-20 time=14:37:01 -0800
Note that unless you're willing to keep up to date with WMF's relatively
fast pace of branching, you're going to miss security updates. No matter
what, if you use git you're going to get security updates slower, since
they are released
On 2014-02-20 2:50 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:21:37 +0100, Greg Grossmeier
g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
quote name=Bartosz Dz. date=2014-02-20 time=22:32:42 +0100
It's worth noting that WMF branches also include temporary hacks to
keep current JS/CSS and cached HTML
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Note that unless you're willing to keep up to date with WMF's relatively
fast pace of branching, you're going to miss security updates. No matter
what, if you use git you're going to get security updates slower, since
they
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