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From: "Platonides" Platonides@gmail.com
Ryan Lane wrote:
I don't think we should encourage people to run trunk in production. We should encourage people to run release candidates in production, and possibly betas for those that know the software *really* well. We should likely encourage people to run trunk on their live testing environments, though.
Occasionally security issues pop up in trunk that get caught in code review. People who run trunk are much more likely to have security problems, so on a production site, it's a problem. Similarly, it's possible that commits may come in that can cause data loss, which will later get caught in code review.
It is the aim of the MediaWiki community to have an always-working trunk. It /should/ be possible to run a small wiki from trunk without much more than verifying before deployment that the tests passes and a few look out for fixmes.
"should be possible" != "is a good idea".
Just sayin'
Cheers, -- jra