Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de writes:
We should - starting now - take out time to collect (on a MediaWiki page) opinions what extensions could be candidates for a roll-out.
Done. See [[mw:Possible Tarballs]].
It'd be nice to have a application that would allow people like SemWiki to put together bundles that others could download. Let a thousand tarballs bloom! (As long as I don't have to support them all. ;)
Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org writes:
Remember that most extensions don't have version numbers, there's no way to tell if they're up to date,
Most extensions we're talking about *do* have SVN revison numbers, though.
This doesn't solve the problem you mention here, though:
and there's no way to tell whether they are compatible with the version of the core that is in use.
Finally,
If an extension is bundled and then later merged to the core, there won't be any way to automatically migrate the wikis that used the bundled copy.
Why not? True, there isn't one now. But why can't we create a process for moving extensions to core so that this automatic migration would take place?
Mark.