#510 archived project files in upstream projects

[Anonymous]

This could be about prerequisite projects, or it could be about external projects (the ones that are hosted on github or wherever), or both.

If project WikiProject has project GitProject as a prerequisite, and does a lot of its processing by doing things like $(MAKE) -C $(GitProject) target, and stores the output files in the GitProject directory, since it's where they are, then what happens when I try to archive those output files?

I just fixed a bug where external projects forget that they have archived project files as soon as I tell them, so that part seems okay now. But when I run a background job from WikiProject and merge it, I don't think the archived files in GitProject are being updated.

• Does merging a background job update archived files? It should.
• Does updating archived files take care of files in prerequisite projects?
• Does updating archived files in external projects work?

In other words, I don't know where the bug is, but it might be in one of those three places.