We did push for a new release process in MobileFrontend some time ago: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104317
This wasn't popular and failed. See: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/673454?page=last
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:17 PM, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Alex Monk krenair@gmail.com wrote:
It's not an extension that gets bundled with MediaWiki releases.
That doesn't mean third parties aren't using it. When I say a release of the extension, I mean give it a version number, increase the version number, tag it in git, then tell people "ensure you are using version x or greater of MobileFrontend".
This is a pretty normal process that Wikimedia does well for other things. I have a feeling this isn't going through a normal process...
I'm pretty sure that doing git tags in extensions for new versions is not normal procedure.
I can't recall any extension ever doing that (Unless you mean the REL1_26 type tags).
Which is not to say that I necessarily disagree with doing that procedure, I just think its unfair to call that the normal procedure, where I don't think that procedure has ever been used for extensions.
Regardless of what procedures are decided as good practice for extensions, formalizing the procedures security releases of non-bundled extensions that are maintained by WMF would probably be a good idea.
-- -bawolff
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