On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:
> This would be 1.19 at the earliest.  1.18 is already branched, and if we're
> aspiring to do much more frequent releases, the last thing we should do is
> to complicate a 1.18 release by trying to add more features into the branch.
>  While this may not be a relatively small change, there are *lots* of
> features that are "small changes".
>
This argument completely misses the point. The (probably trivial)
extra work is in the tarballing process and doesn't touch anything
else. There's no way it can subtly break things.

> I'm assuming our tarball release process currently involves doing "svn
> export" on the phase3 directory of the release branch.  After that, I have
> no idea what sort of post-processing (if any) we do (er, Tim does).
>  Clearly, having some extensions in there is something that makes things a
> little more complicated.  Probably not rocket science, but it is work.  I
> would prefer that we have a plan and a developer lined up to do this work
> before saying this is something that we're going to do.  Who is willing to
> take this on?  I would very much prefer if this were a volunteer rather than
> a WMF staff member.
>
Why don't we first ask Tim how complicated it would be, and get
someone else to do it if it's more than 2-3 hours of work? I'm also
not sure the scripts Tim uses to create a tarball are even in SVN
anywhere, maybe he'd be willing to share them if they're not public
already.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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