What I mean is for the extension to add there own release date so that when they release
an updated version like for example 1.0 updated to 1.0.1 or 1.1 and the user goes to the
extension and page and sees there is an updated version with an updated release date
because some times versions will only be bumped if it is major or if it is worth bumping
it. so it would be useful for the users to know when it was last updated. because some
hosting companys doint allow you to use ssh to download from git so you have to do it
manually.
On Saturday, 6 September 2014, 16:45, Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Thomas Mulhall
<thomasmulhall410(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I also mean when you download the extension it will
also show the release date of the version or when it was last updated. because some people
carnt install through git and have to download it and then upload it.
On Saturday, 6 September 2014, 11:23, Florian Schmidt
<florian.schmidt.welzow(a)t-online.de> wrote:
The date comes from the git information, if there is no .git in the installation, then no
date :) So tarballs don't have some iirc.
It should be possible for tarball releases to use GitInfo's cached
data feature [0][1] to capture and ship this sort of version
information. This feature was added to work around a quirk of the WMF
beta and production deployment process [2] but it could be exploited
to enhance other environments. This would be something to talk to the
Wiki Release Team [3] about.
[0]:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130498/
[1]:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142319/
[2]:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53972
[3]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam
Bryan
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