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) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
