https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17459





--- Comment #6 from Siebrand <[email protected]>  2009-02-13 14:04:16 UTC 
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No problem on my side, Markus. As for maintaining compatibility: I kind of
agree with your point of view, but I hadn't thought of the 'out of sync with
MediaWiki regular releases for SMW' thing. extensions/Wikidata/ has the same
thing. OmegaWiki.org is running MW 1.10alpha, which is also kind of bad...

As for dropping support for earlier versions: I would advocate dropping support
for SMW with any MediaWiki version that is no longer supported. In general,
this is until one year after a 0-point release. A record of this is kept on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/End_of_Life_Policy. End of life for MediaWiki
1.12.x is by the end of March 2009, 1.11.x has been end of life for a while.
You are of course free to choose any compatibility scheme you choose as the SMW
development community, but I think that supporting end of life versions, which
may contains unpatched vulnerabilities, etc., will surely have outdated
functionality and localisation for the core product, is not in the interest of
the users of SMW. It also means that your release cycles require more QA as you
get more versions to test compatibility against, which makes development cycles
longer, more expensive, etc.


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