Definitely interested! I have just finished some packaging for the Web App Gallery and
would like to see (and add) some more flexibility to the installer. Also, at SF Hackathon,
we had some discussion about the use of MediaWiki by outside parties, their issues and how
to make their lives easier ;)
Cheers, Markus
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[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Mark A. Hershberger
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2012 19:36
An: developers, Wikimedia
Betreff: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF
In the past couple of weeks I've been talking with Sam Reed (WMF's current
MediaWiki release manager) and Rob Laphiner (WMF's Platform Engineering Director)
about the future of MediaWiki tarballs.
I began this discussion after Rob expressed regret about the WMF's ability to give
tarball distribution the attention it deserves. Since the WMF is focused on maintaining
Wikipedia and its sister projects, tarball distribution often loses among competing
priorities.
The Foundation has made MediaWiki available for everyone and that's a great thing.
But Wikimedia's funding comes from donations as a result of requests on Wikipedia, not
from distribution of MediaWiki, so they are rightly focused on their production cluster.
Other users of the MediaWiki software have different needs. For instance, Citizendium,
and Wikia and have both pegged their MediaWiki installations at 1.16.5 for stability and
made their own modifications
-- essentially forking the code. Forking is not ideal, but it is understandable because
there is no cooperation around individual MediaWiki releases over the long term. With a
third party to manage MediaWiki releases and maintain long term support for selected
releases, cooperation between non-WMF users would be smoother.
To this start effort, I welcome interested collaborators from the community of MediaWiki
users outside of the WMF. With your help, we will start making and maintaining MediaWiki
releases based on the core MediaWiki code without forking development.
I've been discussing this with some MediaWiki sites as well as setting up a separate
mailing list for packagers (such as Debian and RedHat
distributors) and discussing it there. So far the response has been positive.
So now I'm asking you guys. Any interest?
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