On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 11:11 AM Evan Prodromou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, all. This is the roughly 1-week "pencils down" warning for the > upcoming MediaWiki 1.35 release branch cut. > > The branch cut is scheduled to be made on 14 July 2020 at 02:00 UTC. > > (That's late on 13 July in the Americas and parts of the Pacific. Timezones > are like magic, aren't they?) > > After that point, new features won't be merged into 1.35; the master branch > will become part of the 1.36 release. > > If you have tickets that are tagged for `mw-1.35-release`, please finish > them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved.* > I've been tagging patches for review with 1.35 to keep track of my own. Please tag any patches that you are needing review. I'm happy to take a look and would welcome help with reviewing my own! https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/hashtag:%221.35%22+(status:open%20OR%20status:merged) > After the branch cut, bug fixes will be manually ported, but feature > changes won't. > > Thanks for your work on and interest in MediaWiki. > > -Evan > > * See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.35-release/ for details. > > > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 8:58 AM Cindy Cicalese <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On March 30, we announced that we were temporarily pushing back the > release > > of MediaWiki 1.35 due to uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 > pandemic. > > We are now ready to begin the process of moving forward with the release. > > > > The first step is cutting the release branch, REL1_35, which will occur > on > > Monday, July 13. > > > > We will then be in "pencils down" mode: developers will stop targeting > > MediaWiki 1.35 for new features. Instead, any new features would continue > > to be applied to master and would target MediaWiki 1.36 or later. The > only > > work that would continue towards MediaWIki 1.35 would be blockers - > > critical bug fixes or features close to completion that need to make it > > into the release. This would happen by merging those patches into master > > and then backporting them to the REL1_35 branch. > > > > We anticipate that MediaWiki 1.35 will be released at the beginning of > > August. > > > > We appreciate your patience in these difficult times. Wishing you safety > > and health, > > > > Cindy > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
