On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> This would be 1.19 at the earliest. 1.18 is already branched, and if we're >> aspiring to do much more frequent releases, the last thing we should do is >> to complicate a 1.18 release by trying to add more features into the branch. >> While this may not be a relatively small change, there are *lots* of >> features that are "small changes". >> > This argument completely misses the point. The (probably trivial) > extra work is in the tarballing process and doesn't touch anything > else. There's no way it can subtly break things.
You're willing to say there are exactly *zero* fixes that would be needed to be done in trunk and merged into 1.18 as a result of making this change? I'm not going to dig my heels in on this one. However, I'd really like to encourage everyone to avoid piling non-critical into a release branch after it gets branched, and have the patience to wait for the following release. That's the only way we're ever going to speed up the release train. >> I'm assuming our tarball release process currently involves doing "svn >> export" on the phase3 directory of the release branch. After that, I have >> no idea what sort of post-processing (if any) we do (er, Tim does). >> Clearly, having some extensions in there is something that makes things a >> little more complicated. Probably not rocket science, but it is work. I >> would prefer that we have a plan and a developer lined up to do this work >> before saying this is something that we're going to do. Who is willing to >> take this on? I would very much prefer if this were a volunteer rather than >> a WMF staff member. >> > Why don't we first ask Tim how complicated it would be, and get > someone else to do it if it's more than 2-3 hours of work? I'm also > not sure the scripts Tim uses to create a tarball are even in SVN > anywhere, maybe he'd be willing to share them if they're not public > already. Even if it's 2-3 hours of work, I still would prefer that a volunteer gets involved in this area. Tim in particular has an overabundance of 2-3 hour tasks. Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
