On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/02/13 20:57, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
>> *Git conversion <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion>*
>> The 
>> ExtensionDistributor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ExtensionDistributor>was
>> rewritten in early January. While this was primarily done to support
>> the data center
>> migration<http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning>,
>> this was the first time ExtensionDistributor had received any signification
>> attention since the migration to Git. The new version now utilizes the
>> Github API to generate extension snapshots. We hope that the new version
>> will be more reliable for users. SVN-based extensions are no longer
>> supported, but this is not expected to impact many users since these
>> extensions are largely unmaintained (all popular and active extensions have
>> long since moved to Gerrit). As always, these extensions will remain in SVN
>> should anyone still want the code.
>
> Also worth mentioning, our SVN is now read-only.
>

This actually happened on Feb 1st :)

-Chad

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