On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:30 AM, John W. Foster jfoster81747@verizon.net wrote:

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So now I'm asking you guys. Any interest?

Interested yes...but I use the Debian stable to run my servers, and have adopted the process of using the tarballs myself as there is absolutely no reason to use a "debianized version". That being said if you want to increase the user base then by all means allow the 'debian developers' to repackage the tarballs as they see fit. I see no reason to do otherwise. I do suggest setting up a website to manage this separate from any of the mediawiki sites complete with all the tools to manage the software source code and the process of distribution. I would gladly assist in this.

Moving the distribution of MediaWiki off of mediawiki.org will just fork the efforts in the long run, imho. I think we can accomplish the goal of packaging without creating a new site.

-Chad