On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Mohamed Magdy mohamed.m.k@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
The deployment branch, originally envisioned on the lists by myself, is intended to provide users of mediawiki with access to the latest stable revision - the one being used on Wikipedia, but not trunk. Unfortunately the deployment branch has been subverted and is now full of WMF specific
hacks.
Can we please have a the WMF deployment branch be a branch of an
untainted
branch of the particular revision that is considered stable?
ِAsking too much?
Until recently there was only trunk. It had been a long standing but unattained goal that the trunk was the live, relatively stable code being run on the site. This was never actually the case, and the deployed code began to fall farther and farther behind trunk. Many people began to complain that there was no reliable way to be sure they were running the same code as on Wikipedia, which is desirable for a variety of reasons. A deployment branch was created. Brion and others are aware that others are running the deployment branch and they did not object, nor advise us not to. But now the deployment branch has foundation specific hacks. Thus, it is desirable that there be another branch available that is marked read only in svn. There are a few ways to implement this, one being a read only branch of the stable revision that is further branched into the wmf-deployment branch. Another implementation is simply to create two branches. I don't think it's asking that much.