On 06/06/12 20:29, Chad wrote:
Well since we introduced a CLI installer, it should make the process much cleaner for people packaging the wiki. I don't know what work has been done (if any), but the groundwork's been laid on our end.
The other big complaint we've had over time is moving stuff around to the typical Debian-esque locations (eg: putting LocalSettings in /etc). Don't know what the status is on that though.
-Chad
The problem in the past was primarily lack of cooperation from the packagers. I remember years ago that Aryeh offered help in some bug trackers (with little/no response).
I'd happily add hooks they needed to remove the need of patching for MediaWiki packagers, or including a script to move if that's what they really want.
Also, it'd be cool if downstream maintainers, that are keeping security patches for old versions, did it in MediaWiki repo. * Cross-distro work. No need to independently patch or copy the patches from other distros. * Just one repository, no need of stacked patch queues. * Availability in the upstream official repo. * Easy for us to review/fix in case we spotted something there. * We could commit the fixes for the externally-lts-maintained branched at near-0 cost when backporting some fixes.
Cons: * They need to request a gerrit account. * Yet another website for them to use. ?
IMHO that's a win-win.