On 06/06/2012 04:55 PM, Platonides wrote: > 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).
To encourage cooperation, I started the low-traffic mediawiki-distributors last week. I also asked Debian to work on packaging 1.19 instead of 1.18 for their impending freeze and have been working with them on their pkg-mediawiki-devel mailing list to do sane things with packaging. For example, today they were thinking about dropping wikidiff2 and (with Chad's input) I pointed out some problems with this. So, someone has stepped up to take on the work. > 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. Packaging is happening right now. Look at the patches they're making here: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-mediawiki/mediawiki/trunk/debian/patches/ > Also, it'd be cool if downstream maintainers, that are keeping security > patches for old versions, did it in MediaWiki repo. Absolutely. This is one of the main reasons that I want to tag 1.19 as a LTS version -- so we can continue to do our work in Gerrit without a problem. > * 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. You read my mind! Mark. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
