On 12/6/2010 12:07 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > 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.
I think better time would be spent decoupling all the languages. Out the 57 megs for an svn export, 41 is the languages directory. Distribute the Big $foo, where $foo is some reasonable number of major languages, and offer the rest as a seperate dl. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
