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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
