On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Thomas Mulhall <[email protected]> wrote: > I also mean when you download the extension it will also show the release > date of the version or when it was last updated. because some people carnt > install through git and have to download it and then upload it. > > On Saturday, 6 September 2014, 11:23, Florian Schmidt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The date comes from the git information, if there is no .git in the > installation, then no date :) So tarballs don't have some iirc.
It should be possible for tarball releases to use GitInfo's cached data feature [0][1] to capture and ship this sort of version information. This feature was added to work around a quirk of the WMF beta and production deployment process [2] but it could be exploited to enhance other environments. This would be something to talk to the Wiki Release Team [3] about. [0]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130498/ [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142319/ [2]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53972 [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
