Requests for comment/Distribution and deployment

This page serves as an overview for the effort to create a deployment system for MediaWiki. The idea's are being implemented in the Distribution and Deployment extensions.

Concept

Initial version

The Distribution extension will initially provide extension and core deployment metadata, and later on also create deployment packages. The Deployment extension enables installation and updating of extensions and MediaWiki itself. It obtains deployment packages by using the API provided by the Distribution extension, parses these and applies them. For this it provides several special pages.

Further releases

See the plans for Distribution and those for Deployment

See also

• Deployment extension
• Distribution extension
• GSoC project application (initial Google Summer of Code proposal by Jeroen De Dauw)
• Extension:MWReleases

External links

• Presentation about this project at Wikimania 2010 - download slides