Petr Kadlec wrote:
Hi!
I understand that Wikimedia servers run almost directly from CVS HEAD (erm, I mean SVN trunk). If that is so, what does the revision number at Special:Version mean (as it is quite behind SVN trunk)? And, if I am wrong and the number is correct, how come Brion's fix to bug #6126 (thanks, Brion!) committed as r14493 seems to work on Commons, where the special page reports 1.7alpha (r14374) ?
Thanks for any explanation,
-- [[commons:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]
When comitted to SVN, new things/changes are not visible instantly on the sites. There is a process called synchronization that basically synchronizes the SVN repo with the installations on the servers. The point is that the period between committing and syncing can vary and, depending on the server sysops, it can be as long as a couple of minutes (if you really bug them ;) ) or it could take more than a few days. Filip