Thomas Gries <m...@tgries.de> writes:
> We should - starting now - take out time to collect (on a MediaWiki
> page) opinions what extensions could be candidates for a roll-out.

Done.  See [[mw:Possible Tarballs]].

It'd be nice to have a application that would allow people like SemWiki
to put together bundles that others could download.  Let a thousand
tarballs bloom!  (As long as I don't have to support them all. ;)

Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> writes:
> Remember that most extensions don't have version numbers, there's no
> way to tell if they're up to date,

Most extensions we're talking about *do* have SVN revison numbers,
though.

This doesn't solve the problem you mention here, though:

> and there's no way to tell whether they are compatible with the
> version of the core that is in use.

Finally,

> If an extension is bundled and then later merged to the core, there
> won't be any way to automatically migrate the wikis that used the
> bundled copy.

Why not?  True, there isn't one now.  But why can't we create a process
for moving extensions to core so that this automatic migration would
take place?

Mark.

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