> This means that, once I prepare new packages (starting in > experimental, I think), I will need volunteer testing and feedback, > from admins as well as actual users. We are on a very tight timeframe, > and I wish to have this all finished within the next 28 days, starting > Monday.
I'm willing to help test if it will help get MW 1.23 into Jessie. > Failure to do so will mean shipping Mediawiki 1.19 in jessie, which is > currently upstream’s oldstable and fading LTS. Mediawiki 1.23 is > upstream’s current LTS; we have an agreement from upstream to support > 1.19 for the lifetime of wheezy, and I guess they’d be willing to > extend the same for 1.23 and jessie, but I’d not want to ask them to > do that for 1.19. Right. I wouldn't like to be stuck supporting 1.19 in Jessie. I don't think that is something we can agree to. > The delivery of the security updates from upstream to Debian (both > stable and unstable) has been good so far, [...] so it’s been > productive. I'm glad to hear this. > If anyone’s got a rough overview of what changed between > 1.19 and 1.23 for/from a packager’s PoV, thank you for pointing it out > to me. I'll try to put together a list this week. > I’m not formally the maintainer of src:mediawiki [but] I’m willing to > step forward and do my share of the work. Thank you! -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 _______________________________________________ Fusionforge-general mailing list Fusionforge-general@lists.fusionforge.org http://lists.fusionforge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fusionforge-general
