What I mean is for the extension to add there own release date so that when they release an updated version like for example 1.0 updated to 1.0.1 or 1.1 and the user goes to the extension and page and sees there is an updated version with an updated release date because some times versions will only be bumped if it is major or if it is worth bumping it. so it would be useful for the users to know when it was last updated. because some hosting companys doint allow you to use ssh to download from git so you have to do it manually.
On Saturday, 6 September 2014, 16:45, Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall410@yahoo.com wrote:
I also mean when you download the extension it will also show the release date of the version or when it was last updated. because some people carnt install through git and have to download it and then upload it.
On Saturday, 6 September 2014, 11:23, Florian Schmidt florian.schmidt.welzow@t-online.de wrote:
The date comes from the git information, if there is no .git in the installation, then no date :) So tarballs don't have some iirc.
It should be possible for tarball releases to use GitInfo's cached data feature [0][1] to capture and ship this sort of version information. This feature was added to work around a quirk of the WMF beta and production deployment process [2] but it could be exploited to enhance other environments. This would be something to talk to the Wiki Release Team [3] about.
[0]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130498/ [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142319/ [2]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53972
[3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam
Bryan