Hi,
Stephan - you make a good point about being able to get a working SB for a
specific MediaWiki version. If you, or someone else, actually wanted an SB
version that worked with MediaWiki 1.16, I could probably get that by going
through all the tarballs for SB (they're all still available on the Google
Code site), looking through the version histories of all the extensions,
and matching up the dates. It would take some time, though.
As to creating new Semantic Bundles on the fly that match some criteria -
i.e., using some set of Git tags - that gets complicated by the fact that
not all of the extensions have consistent tagging. Some (like, I'm afraid
to say, Semantic Forms Inputs, don't have any tags) - there are the
automatic tags applied for MediaWiki versions, but those are not reliable
as far as guaranteeing either compatibility or stability of the code.
In general, ensuring the compatibility of Semantic Bundle is about the
level of difficulty one would expect for a package holding 22 extensions,
with varying levels of maintenance for each. Of course, some of these
extensions matter more than others - if, say, the Arrays extension doesn't
work, not that many people will notice. (No offense to Arrays users.) And
some extensions might be worth removing entirely - like Semantic Tasks, a
little-used extension that no longer seems to be maintained. Nevertheless,
trying to do anything sophisticated with the full set of extensions would
take a fair amount of work. On the other hand, having something simple,
like a link on the SB page to the best SB release for every MediaWiki
version, might not be that hard, and it could be quite helpful.
Mark - thanks for clarifying the LTS release thing. As for having releases
of MediaWiki and the Semantic Bundle together, it's an interesting idea,
though it probably belongs in a separate thread.
-Yaron
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@everybody.org>wrote:
> On 02/25/2013 10:23 AM, Yaron Koren wrote:
> > I don't know if everyone's aware of it, but the WMF people have
> > actually declared MediaWiki 1.19 to be the official LTS version for
> > the next two years - so people are supposed to be able to use 1.19 for
> > the next two years without any worries.
>
> Actually, that isn't the WMF people, but rather the Release Manager for
> MediaWiki -- namely me. The MediaWiki community is going to be
> supporting this, not the WMF. See
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/67466
> (the conversation is still going on).
>
> When I put together the 1.20 MediaWiki tarball, I tried to do one with
> the SMW Bundle but ran into problems. Some of those have been fixed,
> but it would be great to have a MediaWiki tarball that includes the SMW
> Bundle as well.
>
> What do you think?
>
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> -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
>
>
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