On 06/06/12 20:29, Chad wrote: > Well since we introduced a CLI installer, it should make the process > much cleaner for people packaging the wiki. I don't know what work > has been done (if any), but the groundwork's been laid on our end. > > The other big complaint we've had over time is moving stuff around > to the typical Debian-esque locations (eg: putting LocalSettings in > /etc). Don't know what the status is on that though. > > -Chad
The problem in the past was primarily lack of cooperation from the packagers. I remember years ago that Aryeh offered help in some bug trackers (with little/no response). I'd happily add hooks they needed to remove the need of patching for MediaWiki packagers, or including a script to move if that's what they really want. Also, it'd be cool if downstream maintainers, that are keeping security patches for old versions, did it in MediaWiki repo. * Cross-distro work. No need to independently patch or copy the patches from other distros. * Just one repository, no need of stacked patch queues. * Availability in the upstream official repo. * Easy for us to review/fix in case we spotted something there. * We could commit the fixes for the externally-lts-maintained branched at near-0 cost when backporting some fixes. Cons: * They need to request a gerrit account. * Yet another website for them to use. ? IMHO that's a win-win. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
