On 12 June 2012 21:45, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
We're still planning to actually publish the tarballs and issue security releases. We might even get in there and fix some installer bugs as the crop up. Sure, there's all types of work that would make MediaWiki for third parties great:
- Making it so that Linux distro installs are great out of the box
- Distro-native packages are created automatically for all extensions
- Web-based installation and upgrading of extensions ala Wordpress
- Much smarter default install/configuration of MediaWiki+essential extensions
However, even assuming we agree these are the most obvious things to work on (I suspect your list is different) we're far more likely to find motivated volunteers to make this all happen than we are to put a sustained effort on this stuff ourselves.
Motivated volunteers - e.g. people like me who use the tarballs - are probably the right people for the job 'cos we'd be scratching our itches. (I suppose this means I have to actually do things now.)
We do put some work into category "c", and we're not planning to pull back from that. My point is that this is an area that is very well suited to outside/volunteer work, since after all, outsiders will be far more motivated to do a great job than we will.
Precisely :-)
So is there a good Bugzilla query for tarball-related matters? From hideous bugs to little papercut annoyances.
- d.