Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> Consequently, use it with care AND I do not think that this should be a
> recommended strategy for our average re-users of MediaWiki and its software.

Certainly not for average reusers. Also, blindly running it from cron
seems a bit risky.


> The current practice is that all the extensions that are
> used will be given the same revision number. When you have one other
> extension, you will not know what the effect is of running this script.

It assumes that the mediawiki folder is a checkout from mediawiki svn
and will update it to the specified revision. I don't see how it would
update to that revision folders of a different svn server.

> Hoi,
> This script assumes that you have the same software as is running on the
> Wikimedia servers. 

> Also it is assumed that the underlying software is the same as well (think
> LAMP). 

Which software could be different?


> Every now and then the underlying software is patched or new
> application are installed to make the software work well. 

Yes. Live hacks are a much bigger issue IMHO. They aren't even available
so reusers can't see what is the really running code (supposed they
tried to run trunk but found a patched bug!).

> Given that this is
> not handled by Werdna's software it is a scenario that is not without its
> dangers.


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