On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:57:52 -0700, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)atrpms.net>
wrote:
Hi Mark,
I'm adding Patrick Uiterwijk to the Cc, as he's been attacking the
package upgrade as well in the last weeks.
The main obstacle is a patch that ensured using a single codebase for
multiple instances of mediawiki w/o touching/extending the
LocalSettings.php configuration. The patch was splitting the use of
$IP to two variables holding the code path and the data path
respectively.
I've examined the current other solutions of doing so (e.g. as
outlined on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family but none
really provides a single source-multiple data solution w/ arbitrary
install location for the instances and no special handling in
LocalSettings.php.
That's just how it's done. Even if that special handling in
LocalSettings.php
is something like:
require_once( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/LocalSettings.php' );
I haven't yet seen I proposal I liked on how to let MediaWiki know where
the alternate location for config is.
Ideally we'd modify mediawiki in Fedora/RHEL to
o allow for concurrent installs of different mediawiki versions
o allow simple imports/migration of unpackaged mediawiki sites w/o
changes to LocalSettings.php
Would it be acceptable to mediawiki devs to split the use of $IP
between code and data instances? In that case we should try to patch
upstream into 1.20 this change, so all distributrions could simply use
a central code/multiple data farm setup.
I guess a $DP that you can optionally use from LocalSettings.php which
defaults to $IP for everyone and is simply used in place of $IP for
various default values might not be that objectable.
Thanks, Axel.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 03:52:57PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Axel Thimm and Fedora Release Engineering,
I'm looking for the person in charge of packaging MediaWiki for Fedora.
From the recent changelog, it looks like Axel is that person.
I'd like to start working with you to get the MediaWiki 1.19 series
packaged for Fedora and use that as a basis for working with other
RPM-based distributions.
Even though MW 1.20 is about to be released, I'd like to use 1.19 so
that we can make it an LTS release and collaborate on supporting it.
We (a group of MediaWiki developers, especially Platonides) have been
working with the Debian developers to get 1.19 into Wheezy and have been
able to help them resolve some issues more quickly because of our
familiarity with MediaWiki.
I hope that you'll see the mutual benefit that could come from
collaborating on MediaWiki packaging.
What do we need to do to get the process started?
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