On 21 September 2014 20:08, Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 9/21/14, 1:42 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> > Dear Wikitech-l
> >
> > REL1_24 was branched and announced ahead of schedule[0].
> >
> > Our schedule[1] clearly states that we will announce a branch one week
> > before we make one in order to allow developers to put any necessary work
> > into the branch and keep backports to a minimum.
>
> Given that your schedule was only posted earlier today
> (<
> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=WikiReleaseTeam%2FRelease_timeline&diff=1177036&oldid=1135771
> >),
> I'm not sure how you expected anyone else to know about it. Normally we
> switch over to the next alpha branch after the wmf22 branch is created.
>

​Indeed. If we follow the newly-proposed timeline on that page, 1.24 would
have wmf23, wmf24 and wmf25 branches before being again branched?

It would help a great deal if you're choosing to alter the process that you
change expectations by communicating them a little earlier; as it is I'll
have to go and apologise to everyone​ who I informed that 1.24wmf22 would
be the last cut, and instead explain that the plans were changed.

J.
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

[email protected] | @jdforrester
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