Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
It feels like I'm nagging now, because I think it
is the 3rd time I
ask about it.
In the past three months, it appears to me we have not gotten any
closer really to getting MediaWiki 1.16 out of the door. There have
been requests to get the FIXMEs in Code Review done. At that time
there were 30 or so. By now there are some 64[1].
There are more fixmes because we are making progress with the review.
It is not necessary for all fixmes to be resolved before the release.
We only need to fix any severe outstanding bugs.
There are about 50 commits every day, and Code Review
state changes
shows there are fewer than 10 state changes per day on average[2].
Actually the average number of state changes has been somewhat higher
than the number of commits. That's why I'm only two weeks behind now,
when I used to be three months behind.
I know it is more fun to add new stuff, but most of
the MediaWiki
instances run on stable MediaWiki "quarterly" releases, of which
the last one was r48811 on 30 April 2009, which is a whopping
almost over 9 months ago and over 12,000 revs from our current
trunk (r61161). We need to provide them with some of the enormous
improvements we have made since 1.15.
If you want to help, then I've given advice previously on how you can
do that. I'm not going to tell everyone to stop committing new
features, because I think volunteer developers would get bored and
find some other project to work on if I did that. However, I am happy
to nag people about pending fixmes, and I've been pondering the best
way to go about that.
How can we get this MediaWiki 1.16 thing out of a the
door and
return to a more reliable "quarterly release" schedule - even if
that means only 3 versions a year?
Our new staff developers, Priyanka and Mark Hershberger, should be
able to help with that next time around. They are helping this time,
but the amount they can do is limited because they are new to MediaWiki.
-- Tim Starling