Extensions branches being REL1_20 REL1_21 .. Aka based on MediaWiki major version I believe. Should be possible by iterating over each of the git sub directories.

Looking at it again, that is a serious issue :/

I use --git-root to point the script to my local repositories. make-release ends up using their current HEAD which might be severely outdated.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95825/ at least update the local repositories. Would have to clone them using --mirror to keep the remote branches in.

As for the branch, the version decomposer abuse the term 'branch' when it is really a tag or major version. I would clean that up and make sure 'branch' point to some 'REL_**' or 'master'. That is not trivial though.

Once we know which REL_ is being processed we can clone the extension using it.

Change 96016 had a related patch set uploaded by Hashar:
make-release: unit tests for MwVersion

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96016

Change 96038 had a related patch set uploaded by Hashar:
make-release: enhance MwVersion

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96038

The changes above clean up MwVersion which we can later improve to forge REL#_##|master branches.

Change 96016 merged by jenkins-bot:
make-release: unit tests for MwVersion

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96016

Change 96038 merged by jenkins-bot:
make-release: enhance MwVersion

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96038

[Resetting status as there are no patches left here to merge.]

Wasn't this working ok @csteipp when we did the release the other day?