[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Debian maintainers: Please join wikitech-l

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Mon, 14 May 2012, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:

> What I would like to do, though, is make sure the new 1.19 package
> upgrade is seamless.  My idea of having a packaged MediaWiki
> installation is that it would eliminate (as much as possible) the manual
> work.

Yes, that’s the goal. We have several hundred Wiki instances here,
on almost twenty machines, and upgrading each manually will be more
than just a PITA. That’s why I’d like it when one installs a new
version of the Debian MW package, everything gets upgraded auto-
matically. From what I understand (Romain, Jonathan?) the “primary”
instance in a standalone MW installation will already do that?

> Would you be willing to join a mailing list that consists entirely of
> package maintainers from different distributions?

Sure. My issue is not with packaging vs. developing, as I’ve dived
into the code myself often enough, but about volume and topics, i.e.
time invested.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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