On 12 June 2012 21:45, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > We're still planning to actually publish the tarballs and issue > security releases. We might even get in there and fix some installer > bugs as the crop up. > Sure, there's all types of work that would make MediaWiki for third > parties great: > * Making it so that Linux distro installs are great out of the box > * Distro-native packages are created automatically for all extensions > * Web-based installation and upgrading of extensions ala Wordpress > * Much smarter default install/configuration of MediaWiki+essential > extensions > However, even assuming we agree these are the most obvious things to > work on (I suspect your list is different) we're far more likely to > find motivated volunteers to make this all happen than we are to put a > sustained effort on this stuff ourselves.
Motivated volunteers - e.g. people like me who use the tarballs - are probably the right people for the job 'cos we'd be scratching our itches. (I suppose this means I have to actually do things now.) > We do put some work into category "c", and we're not planning to pull > back from that. My point is that this is an area that is very well > suited to outside/volunteer work, since after all, outsiders will be > far more motivated to do a great job than we will. Precisely :-) So is there a good Bugzilla query for tarball-related matters? From hideous bugs to little papercut annoyances. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
