Bug#728347: [Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#728347: News about new upstream version of mediawiki
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hello dear maintainers, (strictly speaking I’m only co-maintainer of mw-extensions, but have helped out with mw itself too) can you share your plans to update the mediawiki package ? Upstream said 1.19 would be an LTS release, so we chose it for wheezy; I (opinion of other maintainers) do *not* plan to upgrade it until some not-too-much time before the freeze, in the hopes that upstream will designate another LTS version to use for jessie-as-stable by then. From what I can see, none of the maintainers of the mw- related packages is (able to?) invest lots of time into it. Keeping the same (roughly) version in stable and te- sting reduces maintenance load, I think. bye, //mirabilos PS: If you want to help out… I could really use some feedback on #719208 (and need to remember what Helmut suggested before I fell ill… should have written that down immediately back then…) -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-314 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Boris Esser, Sebastian Mancke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#728347: [Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#728347: News about new upstream version of mediawiki
Hi, On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: can you share your plans to update the mediawiki package ? Upstream said 1.19 would be an LTS release, so we chose it for wheezy; I (opinion of other maintainers) do *not* plan to upgrade it until some not-too-much time before the freeze, in the hopes that upstream will designate another LTS version to use for jessie-as-stable by then. From what I can see, none of the maintainers of the mw- related packages is (able to?) invest lots of time into it. Keeping the same (roughly) version in stable and te- sting reduces maintenance load, I think. Well, you also ensure that you won't discover issues introduced in new versions until well too-late in the developement cycle... What are the chances that there will no new LTS until our next freeze? In any case, it would still be very helpful to continue packaging new upstream releases in experimental at least so that you can have early feedback from people who have a special interest in those new upstream releases... (and it looks like that some features in the new releases generated user interest since someone filed this bug and since a customer of mine asked about it too) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#728347: [Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#728347: News about new upstream version of mediawiki
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Well, you also ensure that you won't discover issues introduced in new versions until well too-late in the developement cycle... Sure, but that happens always, no matter how you set the cut-off. Unless we stick with 1.19 for jessie too. I think you wouldn’t want that. So this is no argument. What are the chances that there will no new LTS until our next freeze? Dunno, haven’t talked to the Mediawiki people yet. Worst case, we just take the then-current version, as usual. In any case, it would still be very helpful to continue packaging new upstream releases in experimental at least so that you can have early Hm, are you volunteering? Also, this gets a nightmare wrt. the extensions… but I now know how to fix _that_ ;) Anyway… I’m doing this for work at $dayjob, so the interest from me is to have stable, not-too-often- changing, mediawiki versions in Debian. I’ll not block you, I didn’t block David’s package split either, but I’m not going to do the work, sorry. (Not speaking for the others, at least jmw and Romain should still be there somewhere…) bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-314 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Boris Esser, Sebastian Mancke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
