https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30640
--- Comment #18 from Gregor Hagedorn <[email protected]> 2011-09-10 00:41:13 UTC --- > I'm not sure where you get the idea that we don't fix bugs in older versions. > If they are reported, and a fix is put into trunk, it will be backported. Many thanks for the discussion! I don't want to go on your nerves, and I probably do, but somehow I feel something is wrong. I assume what Bawolff said: "We fix bugs in MediaWiki, not bugs in specific versions of Mediawiki [...] Its slightly different for 1.18 as 1.18 isn't released yet." is not to be taken literal, right? (I first did.) So bugs are welcome for older versions, they may be fixed, but there is no control of this, because a bug will be closed as soon as it is ok in trunk, is that it? In this example, if you close specific 1.18-bugs as soon as trunk is fixed, there cannot be any testing whether it indeed is fixed in 1.18, e.g., whether the merger worked or not. I may keep a note independent of the bug report system in my private calendar to check. Those interested in the production or soon-to-be-production, rather than development version would probably all prefer to be able to check once a bugreport is closed. But I readily admit that you probably have good reasons to do it so and that there may simply be no solution that satisfies all. I am project manager, responsible for end-user-functionality, not a developer, as you may guess. ASIDE: The question why I wondered about fixing 1.17 may be perhaps more related to extensions, while you refer to mw core. To us, the extensions are just as vital as mw core. I see many of problems that we would need having fixed are working ok on the Wikipedias, but not in the 1.17svn we tried. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
