On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/6/5 Strainu <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > > > I need a little help understanding the deployment policy used on > > Wikipedia in order to have a better image of the relation between > > different types of request in bugzilla and the code added to ro.wp > > following those requests. > > > > I read at > http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES?view=markup&pathrev=51492 > > that "MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development > > model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is > > always kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on > > Wikipedia.". > > > > Indeed, when googling for the blogs of some wikimedia engineers, you > > can see that at certain times the latest code from trunk is pushed > > onto the production servers. On the other hand, when activating an > > extension, the latest stable version is activated. > > > > Is this the way it's really happening? If so, why are there two > > different policies? Which of those two do you consider best? > > > There aren't two different policies. When enabling a new extension, > the latest version from SVN is installed (provided it has passed > review), and extensions are updated together with the core MediaWiki > code. Once upon a time, we had sort-of-weekly code updates, but right > now Wikipedia is running code dated March 25th. > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) Since the quoted text refers to a bygone era, it should be removed or amended to reflect current practice. Werdna's Wikimedia sync script < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_sync_script> might be worth mentioning. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
