2009/6/5 Strainu <strain...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > I need a little help understanding the deployment policy used on > Wikipedia in order to have a better image of the relation between > different types of request in bugzilla and the code added to ro.wp > following those requests. > > I read at > http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES?view=markup&pathrev=51492 > that "MediaWiki is now using a "continuous integration" development > model with quarterly snapshot releases. The latest development code is > always kept "ready to run", and in fact runs our own sites on > Wikipedia.". > > Indeed, when googling for the blogs of some wikimedia engineers, you > can see that at certain times the latest code from trunk is pushed > onto the production servers. On the other hand, when activating an > extension, the latest stable version is activated. > > Is this the way it's really happening? If so, why are there two > different policies? Which of those two do you consider best? > There aren't two different policies. When enabling a new extension, the latest version from SVN is installed (provided it has passed review), and extensions are updated together with the core MediaWiki code. Once upon a time, we had sort-of-weekly code updates, but right now Wikipedia is running code dated March 25th.
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