Brion Vibber wrote:
We're going to have another checkin during ArchCom IRC meeting time this Wednesday, 22:00 UTC / 2pm PST in #wikimedia-office
Documents will be updated shortly reflecting the previous discussion & ongoing tweaks.
Open questions include:
- should we go straight to the MCR-ready schema or do this in two steps,
one to break up tables & prep, and another for the MCR content model?
- final model for updating archive & text
Re: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/?curid=661038
The implementation path isn't clear to me. For a "regular" MediaWiki installation, will making these changes be a matter of simply updating MediaWiki's application code and running maintenance/update.php?
For Wikimedia wikis, as far as I know update.php is never run. Are you planning to write separate maintenance scripts for this?
Regarding scope, this is a lot of changes. How are all of these changes intended to be divided? Are we able to move forward with some changes (e.g., adding a comment table) without moving forward with other changes (e.g., adding a user_entry table)? Some parts of this proposal seem to be well-received and popular (yay). Other parts, particularly dealing with users, seem to be hairier and less settled.
MZMcBride