Topic on Manual talk:Managing data in MediaWiki

Yaron Koren (talkcontribs)

It seems to me like the rows "Stable releases", "Upgrade instructions" and "Installation" should all be removed, for different reasons... Andre Klapper made similar points in his email to mediawiki-l from a week ago. None of these rows really indicate anything about the quality of the software, or how easy it is to install/upgrade. And I think the "Installation" row, with its current data, is just incorrect - right now for all three extensions it says "easy (standard MediaWiki extension install)", and I think for both SMW and Wikibase, that's not the case - installation and upgrade may be easy, but it's not standard, because it involves more than one extension. Does anyone object to just removing them?

Jonathan3 (talkcontribs)

I agree. Also the row "Implementable on WMF wikis" currently just has question marks so could also be removed.

Samwilson (talkcontribs)

I posted a similar topic above before I read this. I think the 'installation' row is useful, but not accurate at the moment.

Nikerabbit (talkcontribs)

Btw, I don't think that Wikibase has stable releases. Finding a version that works with the version of core has been challenging. If you are lucky, the REL_XX branches work together with equivalent core, but those are not releases in the normal sense (tested, release notes, etc.).

Addshore (talkcontribs)

REL_XX branches are the stable releases, and should always work with the equivalent core releases.

Not having separate releases and just releasing with mediawiki was decided as a release strategy some years ago now.

If you find a set of REL branches that do not work then please file a phabricator ticket, but really this shouldn't ever happen.

With all that said I find the statement that finding versions of things that work together to be a bit odd.

Jonathan3 (talkcontribs)

I've removed the "Complementary tools & services" and "Implementable on WMF wikis" rows are they have been empty for over a year now (diff).

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