Tim Starling wrote:
> On 06/12/10 15:56, MZMcBride wrote:
>> I filed bug 26259, "MediaWiki bloated with test suites":
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26259
>> 
>> RobLa asked me to send an e-mail to wikitech-l about this bug. It's my view
>> that checking out MediaWiki from SVN should not include files that most
>> users do not need or want. These test suites seem to fit perfectly within
>> this category.
> 
> Do you mean you don't want them in phase3? Subversion is really the
> only place for such files, but we have in the past moved large files
> out of phase3 to reduce the size of core checkouts, specifically
> /trunk/artwork.

Yes, sorry. I follow the instructions at "Download from SVN" typically to
install MediaWiki.[1] I ran 'svn up' on two hosts today and noticed a lot of
additions of files in the maintenance directory, none of which should be in
there, in my view.

I don't think anyone has an issue with these tests being in Wikimedia's SVN
repo, but putting them in the maintenance directory that end users checkout
seems unnecessary and wasteful.

MZMcBride

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN



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