If I might add my opinion, this strikes me as a good idea, but it depends on how it scrapes tags, and the tags need to be fairly exact in regards to version information.
For instance, if an extension is confirmed working for "1.17" and "1.18" but there are no tags for 1.19.2 or higher, this still gives incomplete information on extension compatibility. However, I do agree it is better than nothing, and since changes on MediaWiki have to be preapproved, the information would be fairly reliable. Ideally, I'd like the tagging system (if one was to be implemented) to scrape the MediaWiki version information from the infobox at the right of the extension page, like this one: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter The scrape should get the following: "1.13+" Of course, everyone else might have different ideas, but I think the information scrape proposal has merit. > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:05:53 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tarball upgrade very smooth, and a > suggestion re: extensions > > On 11/23/2012 10:39 AM, David Gerard wrote: > > A suggestion: How feasible would it be for the upgrader to (a) detect > > extensions in use (b) check their mediawiki.org page re: > > upgradeability [template-scraping] and give their status? > > I love this idea. Other OSS software does a lot more than MW in the > area of updatability. We should definitely implement this. > > Bug filed: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42393 > > Note that there may be more work needed, but we definitely need > *something* like this. > > -- > http://hexmode.com/ > > Language will always shift from day to day. It is the wind blowing > through our mouths. -- http://hexm.de/np > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
