On 11/23/2012 10:39 AM, David Gerard wrote:
A suggestion: How feasible would it be for the upgrader to (a) detect extensions in use (b) check their mediawiki.org page re: upgradeability [template-scraping] and give their status?
I love this idea. Other OSS software does a lot more than MW in the area of updatability. We should definitely implement this.
Bug filed: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42393
Note that there may be more work needed, but we definitely need *something* like this.