On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Thanks for the clarification. I will file bugs for these issues in the future, then. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
