On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Now that April is upon us, is there a more concrete
timeline for getting
deployment branches into Git and using them for deployment? As much as I
love making patches between a Git repo and the deployment branch, I'm very
eager for the migration as I expect it will make deployments much easier
and less time consuming.
We've got a meeting Wednesday to work on this. There's some
rough consensus already, so it should just be a matter finishing
off the details.
Also, what is the impact that this migration strategy
will have on
extension deployments? The mobile team makes code deployments very
frequently and it would be helpful to be able to plan ahead around the
migration timeline.
The plan right now is to use extensions as submodules on the
wmf branch. Updating your extension in deployment is just a
matter of updating the referenced commit and then running
`git submodule update` on fenari.
-Chad