----- Original Message ----- > From: "Platonides" <[email protected]>
> Ryan Lane wrote: > > I don't think we should encourage people to run trunk in production. > > We should encourage people to run release candidates in production, > > and possibly betas for those that know the software *really* well. > > We should likely encourage people to run trunk on their live testing > > environments, though. > > > > Occasionally security issues pop up in trunk that get caught in code > > review. People who run trunk are much more likely to have security > > problems, so on a production site, it's a problem. Similarly, it's > > possible that commits may come in that can cause data loss, which > > will later get caught in code review. > > It is the aim of the MediaWiki community to have an always-working > trunk. > It /should/ be possible to run a small wiki from trunk without much > more than verifying before deployment that the tests passes and a few look > out for fixmes. "should be possible" != "is a good idea". Just sayin' Cheers, -- jra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
