On 22 September 2014 13:10, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> In deference to the concerns raised by James Forrester, Markus and I > have decided not to back out the REL1_24 branch. > > Less than 80 hours have passed since the branch was made, so there > hasn't been time to make any major technical changes in the code base. > That leaves the social concerns that James raises. We respect him and > his work as product manager for editing and don't want to make him > suffer as the result of this snafu. > > That said, I need to clarify some things about the schedule for > releases. > > For about a year now, we've used the schedule: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam/Release_timeline > > Markus did filled in the dates as a result of this > situation, but we had already agreed on a release date, and, as a > result, a branch point. > > (Markus and I are not the only people who have edited the > page, so it wasn't unknown. Still, we could have done a much better job > of publicizing it. Thankfully, this incident has led to it being > publicized.) > > In this vein, we'd like to announce the date of the 1.25 release now and > its respective branch point. > > 1.25 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, May 27th, 2015. Using the > formula on that page (6 weeks prior to the release date), the branch > date for REL1_25 will be April 15th, 2015 and this will be announced > (again) on April 8th so that everyone will have a week's notice to merge > anything that is necessary for 1.25. > > Thanks, and I hope this clarifies any misunderstanding. > Mark and Markus, Thank you very much; sorry for putting you in an awkward position. Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
