On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Tisza Gergő<[email protected]> wrote: > Brian <Brian.Mingus <at> colorado.edu> writes: >> >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Tisza Gergő <gtisza <at> gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Brian <Brian.Mingus <at> colorado.edu> writes: >> > > >> > > And of course Special:Version code has changed since the last time I ran >> > > that code, meaning there is really no reliable way to know what version >> > > of MediaWiki Wikipedia is running anyway. >> > >> > You can get >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=xml >> > and look for /\brev="(\d)"/. A separate SVN branch for the version used >> > on live Wikimedia wikis would be a great improvement, though. >> >> Yes - this would be fantastic. It just needs to be a cheap copy which is >> essentially zero overhead on WMFs part. A 'live' tag for example. > > I tried to suggest that a few weeks ago, but couldn't create much interest: > http://www.nabble.com/Live-SVN-branch-td23636464.html > > If done properly, it would be probably more difficult than a simple copy of a > certain version, but it would also be much more useful. For example, Tim > updated > SpecialUserrights.php to r52116 just a few minutes ago to fix a bug which > stopped it from working, but you wouldn't know that from looking at > Special:Version. >
The simplest way would be to have the output of svn status -v on a public place along with svn diff (for live hacks). This could probably be easily incorporated in the script that is used for syncing. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
