On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)robla.net> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Lane, Ryan
<Ryan.Lane(a)ocean.navo.navy.mil> wrote:
I think we should be doing education, but not for
the package maintainers.
We should try harder to inform our users that they shouldn't used distro
maintained packages, and we should explain why.
I'm not sure I buy this. Why is MediaWiki so special that it can't
exist inside of a package? Is MediaWiki such a special piece of
software that it's impossible to build a good package?
It Can, we just want a
working package, And until the providers
provide this, there will be recommendations against using the
packages. Someone, That for example, installs a package that has
broken skins right from the get go are going to have bad impressions
on MediaWiki, it won't be until they go digging to find out that they
need to manually set a alias for their webserver to find it, And it
won't be until someone mentions otherwise that its actually the
packages fault its broken.