Might want to get at least Mark and Markus on this list to join the discussion. Maybe even going as far as just sending a note to wikitech-l about the existence (I may have missed it, but I think it was only announced to engineering@?).

<quote name="Gabriel Wicke" date="2014-03-18" time="11:22:31 -0700">

Hi,

a while ago we agreed to set up a public Debian repository for WMF-developed software (MediaWiki, Parsoid, ...). To make progress on this we need to make a decision on the repository layout and versioning scheme for major projects like MediaWiki core. To get the discussion on this going again, I created a wiki page summarizing the options at

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Packaging

The main candidates are

• major versions in package names ('apt-get install mediawiki-1.22' plus 'mediawiki-stable' meta package), and
• separate repository sections for major releases.

I'm looking forward to your input on wiki or here,

Gabriel

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