Is there any interest in having nightly snapshots of MediaWiki available?
I realize people could just use git, but this poses a problem for users
who are familiar with extracting, say, a .xip file, and making MediaWiki
work, but are stymied by the esoteric nature of git.
This would be similar to Mozilla's nightlies:
(http://nightly.mozilla.org/) and may also be a stepping stone for
people to get into development, or at least patch submission.
This all came up because I had the chance to provide a snapshot to help
solve a problem in 1.19
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/40011, shortened:
http://hexm.de/kt).
I used the make-release script
(http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/make-release/,
shortened: http://hexm.de/ku) and put the snapshot up at
http://mah.everybody.org/snapshots/.
I'm willing to set this up to run on wmflabs.org or on my own server if
there is interest. This may also be a good way to measure the "need"
for a point release -- for example, if the nightly starts including
fixes for annoying bugs that affect a lot of people, then a point
release is probably needed. (I'm looking at you, Bug #24985.)
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Hi, mr. All!
When i installed MW-1.19.1 on my hosting i got error messages like
'rename() [function.rename
<http://fwiki.whitefossa.ru/index.php/function.rename>]: SAFE MODE
Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 55398 is not allowed to
access /var/tmp owned by uid 0 in
*/home/u48601/whitefossaru/fwiki/includes/upload/UploadStash.php* on
line *173*'
when trying to upload any image.
Safe mode was turned OFF, but this error didn't disappear.
Investigations, made by me and Sir. Sheti <sheti(a)furtails.ru> revealed, that my hoster is completely moron. He uses one tempdir /var/tmp for all users of server, and, this directory belongs to root:root. Because it any modification in this directory fails. And, hoster don't allow to change this directory.
So, here is dirty workaround by Sheti:
1) Create temp directory in filesystem, accessible by you, than chmod -R 777 it
2) Locate file <mediawiki_dir>/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
3) Find function named 'wfTempDir()' and comment it (this function determines temp directory):
//Hoster are idiot, we must make temp yourself
/*
function wfTempDir() {
foreach( array( 'TMPDIR', 'TMP', 'TEMP' ) as $var ) {
$tmp = getenv( $var );
if( $tmp && file_exists( $tmp ) && is_dir( $tmp ) && is_writable( $tmp ) ) {
return $tmp;
}
}
if( function_exists( 'sys_get_temp_dir' ) ) {
return sys_get_temp_dir();
}
# Usual defaults
return wfIsWindows() ? 'C:\Windows\Temp' : '/tmp';
}
*/
Than add new version of function:
//BEGIN PATCH
function wfTempDir() {
return '/home/u48601/whitefossaru/fwiki/temp'; //!!!! << FULL PATH TO YOUR TEMP MUST GO HERE !!!!
}
//END PATCH
4) Save file and locate <mediawiki_dir>/includes/uploads/UploadStash.php
5) Find function 'stashFile' and lines
if ( ! preg_match( "/\\.\\Q$extension\\E$/", $path ) ) {
$pathWithGoodExtension = "$path.$extension";
in it.
Comment out this lines.
Place between commented lines and 'if ( ! rename( $path,
$pathWithGoodExtension ) ) {' next code:
//BEGIN PATCH
//For moron hosters, who do not allow to work with file in
tmp directory
if ( ! preg_match( "/\\.\\Q$extension\\E$/", $path ) ) {
$file_basename = basename($path);
$pathWithGoodExtension =
wfTempDir().'/'.$file_basename.$extension;
//END PATCH
This code will move uploaded file into our temp.
6) Enjoy. It's working, but it's very dirty!
7) Write you hoster testimonial email.
P.s. My hoster is Majordomo (Majordomo.ru, Russia).