Good day everyone, I hope everyone is doing well this labor day. I have a question regarding the current Semantic Mediawiki development protocol regarding milestone; in particular, freezing milestone from new issues. As you can imagine, there are many of us who are silently and patiently waiting for MediaWiki 3.0.0 [0] to complete. Version 3.0 was expected to complete around Q4 2017 - Q1 2018. By end of Q1 it was obvious that was not happening and so it got pushed to Q2 [1] and then to Q3. More recently, a due date of August 22 was set, then September 2, and now it's set to September 17 [0]. There is no question this due date won't be met. In fact, it's clear 3.0 won't be done any earlier than Q1 2019. This gets close to around the original 3.1 due dates [2].
That being said, we are very grateful for this project and are willing to patiently wait for the final tasks to complete (I would have loved to help out myself but I currently don't have the free time). Unfortunately, one of the reasons the due date for 3.0.0 continuously gets pushed back is because new issues are still being added. In fact, 5 of the last 17 issues remaining for 3.0.0 were opened in 2018 - 2 of those issues are tagged as enhancements. One was added just over a month ago. And that's not to mention the many other issues that were opened this year and were already closed. So my question is simple (or complicated): why are new issues still being added to a milestone that's already a year behind schedule? Let alone enhancements. Is there a general policy/protocol for freezing issues for versions such as 3.0.0, with the exception of only priority bugs? In other words, why is 3.0.0 not frozen for everything but critical bugs? Why not move many of those issues to 3.1.0? [0] - https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/milestone/6 [1] - https://sourceforge.net/p/semediawiki/mailman/message/36248747/ [2] - https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/milestone/23 Thanks, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
