On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Arthur Richards arichards@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