On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)robla.net> wrote:
I don't think there's been many public
references to this, but that is
more or less the timeframe many of us have discussed. There is at
least one public reference here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/Release/2010-07-14
Several of us have a desire to get back on a more regular release
cadence with MediaWiki releases generally, and MediaWiki 1.17 seemed
like a good place to start.
The goal, as I recall, was branching October 15 or thereabouts, with
first beta in November, and a release sometime after that (perhaps as
late as January, depending on how well we do with the first beta). We
really haven't had an organized discussion of the topic since that one
meeting above, but maybe this email thread can be that conversation.
Nothing about the schedule is carved in stone, so now is as good a
time as any to bring up any objections to that timeline.
I think the primary objection would be that we don't want to do a
release of code that hasn't run on Wikimedia for a while. We never
have before, certainly. Not many people use wikis running RCs or
betas compared to the number who use Wikipedia, so we'll get vastly
fewer bug reports and thus ship a much buggier release if we don't
scap the code well before we release it. It's also kind of sketchy to
say that trunk is good enough for release when it hasn't been vetted
as suitable for Wikimedia deployment.
So whatever the timetable is, we need to have "scap" placed somewhere
significantly before "branch for release". If we say a month before,
then that would be five days ago according to your timetable, so I
don't think that's a good idea.