On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now that April is upon us, is there a more concrete timeline for getting
> deployment branches into Git and using them for deployment? As much as I
> love making patches between a Git repo and the deployment branch, I'm very
> eager for the migration as I expect it will make deployments much easier
> and less time consuming.
>

We've got a meeting Wednesday to work on this. There's some
rough consensus already, so it should just be a matter finishing
off the details.

> Also, what is the impact that this migration strategy will have on
> extension deployments? The mobile team makes code deployments very
> frequently and it would be helpful to be able to plan ahead around the
> migration timeline.
>

The plan right now is to use extensions as submodules on the
wmf branch. Updating your extension in deployment is just a
matter of updating the referenced commit and then running
`git submodule update` on fenari.

-Chad

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