On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Lane, Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is MediaWiki such a special piece of >> software that it's impossible to build a good package? > > It's "special". It isn't necessarily the fault of the distro or the package > maintainer for the quality of the packages. It is our fault. Upgrading is > unreliable for a number of reasons. It is definitely unreliable enough that > I wouldn't trust a package to do it for me, and I can't reasonably recommend > it for anyone else either.
Fair enough. Is it safe to assume that the new installer work should make proper packaging more viable? > I think it would be better if we provided the packages. If we fix our > upgrade issues, I'll be more than happy to write rpms and debs. I think this would be fantastic, so defining what bar we need to clear would be seems like a worthwhile exercise. Even if distro makers still go off and create their own derivatives, having a good reference implementation would be wonderful. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a project that doesn't complain about what packagers do (assuming they don't do their own packaging, and even then...) Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
