[Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Starling
All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. There's no longer a simple way to branch all extensions when a core release is updated, and nobody has volunteered to write a script. So we're back to the situation

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-08 Thread Platonides
It's easy to make a script which creates such branch for each extension, but I'm not convinced that's the right thing to do. Also, did we make Extension:Distributor properly support branches on git extensions? In an ideal world we would have perfect tests for all extensions, and jenkins could aut

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Starling
On 09/11/12 09:43, Platonides wrote: > It's easy to make a script which creates such branch for each extension, > but I'm not convinced that's the right thing to do. > > Also, did we make Extension:Distributor properly support branches on git > extensions? No. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-08 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:08:53 -0800, Tim Starling wrote: All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. There's no longer a simple way to branch all extensions when a core release is updated, and nobody has

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-08 Thread Chad
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very > few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. > There's no longer a simple way to branch all extensions when a core > release is updated, and nobody has v

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-08 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
9 Ноябрь 2012 г. 2:52:54 пользователь Daniel Friesen (dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com) написал: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:08:53 -0800, Tim Starling    wrote: > All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very > few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. > T

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-09 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Tim Starling wrote: > All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very > few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. > There's no longer a simple way to branch all extensions when a core > release is updated, and nobody has volunteered to write a script.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 17:54 -0500, Chad wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > > All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very > > few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. > > There's no longer a simple way to branch all extens

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Krinkle
On Nov 8, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > All extension branches were removed during the migration to Git. Very > few extensions have branches for MW core major version support. > There's no longer a simple way to branch all extensions when a core > release is updated, and nobody has vol

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Extension maintainers should be able to decide when and where to > branch. So that they don't have to backport changes just because > someone at the foundation decided to branch all extensions. > +1. Having a script run that makes pretty arbitrary tags in between actual releases for extensio

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 19.11.2012 17:08, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > +1. Having a script run that makes pretty arbitrary tags in between actual > releases for extensions that have real releases and associated > tags/branches does not seem helpful at all to me. It is, however, extremely helpful for those extensions that d

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 backwards compatibility in extensions

2012-11-19 Thread Krinkle
On Nov 19, 2012, at 5:12 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > On 19.11.2012 17:08, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: >> +1. Having a script run that makes pretty arbitrary tags in between actual >> releases for extensions that have real releases and associated >> tags/branches does not seem helpful at all to me. > >