26 November 2014, 3:16

Hi,

Following the URL for how to install Mahara from git:

https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Developer_Area/Getting_Code_from_Git

The instructions seem to suggest to check out 1.9_STABLE to deploy the stable / production branch of Mahara.

I installed Mahara with this:

git clone https://github.com/MaharaProject/mahara.git --depth=1 --branch 1.9_STABLE  <dir>

And that seems to have accomplished the same thing from my understanding of git (which granted is not very much but I did not want to pull the entire Mahara dev history)

But anyway,

git checkout 1.9_STABLE

does report

Already on 1.9_STABLE

yet ....

Under Admin Home, the Mahara version is:  1.9.4testing  

That seems to imply to me that what is actually in production is a dev / testing version, and perhaps 1.9.4 has not been released yet.

Maybe it's just that the version is confusing, and that 1.9.4testing *is* the stable / production release - just making sure, since I don't particularly want to run a non-production release on our production server.

I then have "git pull" on a cron entry so that it should automatically apply any security patches as soon as they come out, which may or may not be best practice - but it seems to me always keeping up to date with the current stable branch of the version I'm on seems prudent.

Thanks for any advice...

Mike

26 November 2014, 11:35

02 December 2014, 6:13

Thanks Dominique -

I learned that there is a 1.9.4_RELEASE branch as well, but I would prefer to have the latest 1.9_RELEASE tagged, but it isn't tagged unfortunately.  Releases are only tagged with the minor release numbers and not the version number as a whole, it seems.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

So I suppose 1.9_STABLE will have to do for now and I appreciate the help.

10 December 2014, 16:57

For anyone off the Internet looking for the answer to this question, see my comment in Mike's other thread: https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=6567&offset=0&limit=10#post27845

Cheers,

Aaron