Hint:
For a better wiki-formatted output (e.g. with {{git}} and
{{phabricator}} we could reuse mediawiki-tools-release[1]. With the
following command (e.g.) you can create a new changelog of MF:
$ cd /var/www/.../extensions/MobileFrontend/
$../../../mediawiki-release/ma
A heads up about a new extension (Gather [1]) being deployed to the cluster
on Thursday [2]. We are aiming to deploy to testwiki on Thursday 26th March
and English Wikipedia on Monday 30th March.
We're not expecting this to cause any problems since traffic is limited to
the mobile beta mode of the
>
> My biggest concern is blocking merges on badly formatted release notes. I
> see this all the time with core and the merge conflicts associated due to
> multiple people editing the text file.
>
Yeah. That sucks. How about we push a single change to
VERSIONS.txtmediawikidown at the end of every
Great link, Sam. We should use it.
> On Mar 24, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Sam Smith wrote:
>
> Seems sensible, but knowing history I don't think it will be updated
> correctly.
>
> We're a different team now. Whaddya say we give it a try?
>
> I think the updating of VERSION.txt really needs to be a
My biggest concern is blocking merges on badly formatted release notes. I
see this all the time with core and the merge conflicts associated due to
multiple people editing the text file.
If we can have a tool that generates these consistently I'm all for release
notes. Versioning seems like a no b
>
> Seems sensible, but knowing history I don't think it will be updated
> correctly.
We're a different team now. Whaddya say we give it a try?
> I think the updating of VERSION.txt really needs to be automated. Can we
> have a script that can be run bumps the version number and generates thes
On Mar 22, 2015 11:36 PM, "Monte Hurd" wrote:
> It is markup reliant which raises the contributory bar and complicates
any description editing UX.
>
On this point I can imagine a simple "highlight description text and click
an associated button" UX that would eliminate the need for showing source
