Don't we already pull the date from git if it exists?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version says yes.

-Chad
On Sep 5, 2014 11:34 PM, "Isarra Yos" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/09/14 22:45, Thomas Mulhall wrote:
>
>> Can we add a section for release date of the extension or skin release.
>> because it would be easer to view the release date in the special version
>> page then go to the extension page and try to look it up.
>>
>
> This does sound like it could be useful, and for projects installing
> extensions from git, far more user-readable and meaningful in most cases
> than a change id (I assume that's what those are, anyway). Including the
> date would mean it'd be much easier to see at a glance if something looks
> horribly out of date or really is the current/recent version, especially
> since likely as not people aren't going to remember what the version
> numbers mean for a dozen different extensions since every extension
> versions differently.
>
> Also do most extension pages on mw.org even say the latest release date
> anyway?
>
> -I
>
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