Hello,
replying to myself, I forgot to mention:
Am 03/23/2016 um 12:41 AM schrieb Jan Lühr:
Hello,
Am 03/22/2016 um 06:50 PM schrieb Legoktm:
Hi,
On 03/22/2016 03:52 AM, Jan Lühr wrote:
Thinking about release intervals, Debian is way slower compared to mediawiki - thus Debian's packages for mediawiki become outdated with very high probability. Is there a chance to see debian packages built by mediawiki some day soon?
The MediaWiki LTS cycle actually lines up pretty closely with the Debian release cycle.
Ok .. well, I'm not that into mediawiki.
I'm currently working on getting an updated version of MediaWiki into Debian,
That's great! Thanks a lot!
Another option is to integrated Debian packing into mediawiki's CI (aka jenkins).
If the mediawiki's release process is "good", there's hardly any maintenance work todo: Updating dependency definitions and distro names according to debian is the only thing I've in my mind atm.
However, this requires mediawiki's release process to include tested upgrade routines: For instance: If a database-update is needed, having a readme-file mentioning some manual steps is not enough. This somewhat implies that there are integration-tests for upgrade-scripts that are a) integrated into the release process and b) can be used by the debian packaging jobs If this is up'n'running, packing for ubuntu is easy to add.
I don't know if mediawiki is there. I cannot say anything about the shape of the release-process or likelihood of this setup.
Greet, yanosz