We always run the latest trunk and encounter few if any issues. The problems we do encounter usually involve extensions breaking.
I had implemented a policy of keeping up to date with Wikipedia using this cute bit of code: svn update -r $(($(wget -q -O- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version| grep pathrev | sed -r 's/.*pathrev=([0-9]{5,}).*/\1/')+10)) But WMF became so out of date that it became very problematic. What happens is that MediaWiki's newer code breaks an extension. The extension maker then fixes their extension which breaks backwards compatibility with previous versions of MediaWiki. But this means using a version of MediaWiki that has bugs. It really is kind of a nightmare trying to find a tradeoff between working versions of MediaWiki and working versions of your extensions and sometimes the only solution is to disable an extension until either it catches up or MediaWiki catches up. Someday we will have a solution to this problem I hope.. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote: > Wikimedia's copy of MediaWiki has been updated to r51904 (r51864 for > extensions). There were lots of fun bugs, the most exciting of which > are now fixed. > > Developers, please check the bug tracker for bugs reported against > code that you maintain, or bugs that you can otherwise fix. Users, > please report any bugs you notice there, after doing a search for > duplicates, even if you also report them in other places such as IRC > or [[WP:VPT]]. > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ > > Please do not discourage users from reporting "known issues", point > them to the bug report so that they can give us a priority hint in a > comment. It's hard to prioritise bug fixes when we don't know how many > people are affected or how severe the issue is. > > -- Tim Starling > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
