Hoi, One of the reasons why trunk is of such high quality is because it is used on translatewiki.net. Quite regularly you will find one of its developers, Raymond Nikerabbit and Siebrand to name the most obvious ones reverting code.
For translatewiki.net there is a compelling reason; we localise the messages in trunk and, they are committed back to trunk. This is why the LocalisationUpdate extension is doing its thing while the work on the 1.17 release has not even finished. Thanks, GerardM
On 20 February 2011 16:30, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
On 02/16/2011 04:48 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
K> Who cares about wether or not a bit of whitespace changed ? My argument exactly. Every couple weeks I do $ svn diff -r BASE:HEAD RELEASE-NOTES and if all looks safe, I then do $ svn update
You aren't running trunk in production, right? Right?
And what's wrong with that?
One of the nice things about the MediaWiki development process is that our trunk generally *is* usable. Sure, every one in a while someone fails to test their code properly before committing and breaks something, but generally you can just report the regression on #mediawiki and it'll get fixed or reverted promptly.
Anyway, we really should encourage more people to run trunk. It's the only efficient way to catch bugs before we put out a tarball.
-- Ilmari Karonen
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