[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] packaging of MW extensions

[Romain Beauxis]

Le jeudi 24 juin 2010 13:30:37, Thorsten Glaser a écrit :
> > If the extension is not stored in a SVN I refused it in the past, because
> > its  practically impossible to update it automatically and, with many
> > extensions, manual updates are simply not an option.
> 
> True, but: we could set up an svn repository exactly for the
> upstream (i.e. unmodified) versions of such code that comes
> from CVS (GraphViz), Web- or Wikipages (RSS_Reader). Then, the
> packaging would still be done by Romain (or whoever else helps
> with it) but the other svn can be kept up to date by volunteers.
> 
> I’m sure I could even get company ressources allocated to do
> that occasionally.
> 
> Where that second svn is doesn’t really matter much, it should
> be separate from the pkg-mediawiki svn repo though (where is
> that, anyway?) but it could live on Alioth I suppose, or on
> my company’s FF platform (evolvis.org).
> 
> What do you think? (You’d only package, others keep it updated.)
> 
> I’ve started adding extensions to your package now, but I’ve
> already run into two which are not versioned, and it’s likely
> there will be more.

I am not against adding extensions which are not versioned in principle. I am 
just worried about the work needed to keep them up to date.

The svn idea is feasible, it could be a speperate directory in the debian's 
pkg-mediawiki svn. However, it would still require to update them.

Anyway, if you think you can maintain them, feel free to add a upstream/ or 
whatever directory at the root and use this url in the svn-urls file..


Romain