On 22 February 2013 12:03, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:

>         Another thing that would be nice to have on
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle or elsewhere is what are
> reasonable expectations about the stable releases. For instance, we know
> that 1.x.0 releases are always a nightmare: they're practically untested;
> branch point is pseudo-random and we have no info whatsoever about the bugs
> that MediaWiki (and extensions) had at any given revision. It would be nice
> to write somewhere that, say, 5 months after the 1.x.0 release came out,
> it's reasonable to think that most of its critical bugs/regressions are
> fixed in the last 1.x.y release; while of course 1.(x-1).* and 1.(x+1).*
> will have different bugs.


Sounds LibreOffice-ish - they release a x.x.0 and schedule x.x.1 for a
month after, with bug fixes, even if there's no security problems
forcing a release.


- d.

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