On 7/30/09 9:19 AM, Brian wrote: > The deployment branch, originally envisioned on the lists by myself, is > intended to provide users of mediawiki with access to the latest stable > revision - the one being used on Wikipedia, but not trunk. Unfortunately the > deployment branch has been subverted and is now full of WMF specific hacks. > Can we please have a the WMF deployment branch be a branch of an untainted > branch of the particular revision that is considered stable?
I think you miss the point of the deployment branch, which is to give everyone clean and direct access to and versioning of our actually-deployed software, so we can maintain it easily and other folks can get access to it easily. It's never been, nor been meant to be, anything else. **Note that dev trunk and the release branches have WMF-specific hacks too!** The process of development is such that these things become generalized over time, and then a specific hack is no longer needed. Please feel free to pitch in when you see such things that still need cleanup. The wmf-deployment shouldn't _need_ any site-specific hacks, just as dev trunk and release versions shouldn't. But the deployment branch, BY DEFINITION, is what we're running in production. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
