On Tue, 22 May 2012, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Sam Reed has been supporting versions back to 1.17
lately, but there is
no official policy.
OK.
Is there any
interest from MW side to support a specific version
(which would have to be released within the next two to three weeks)
for a long(er) time?
If I do end up taking over the tarball distribution, I plan on working
with a team of volunteers to manage this. This team may include WMF
employees like Sam, Chad Horohoe and Tim, to help the transition.
Sam has said that handling multiple versions is problematic and time
consuming, but if we have people interested in supporting older versions
(like Debian Stable's 1.15), then I think it makes sense to include
those in the "official" updates.
Well, we’re 2-3 weeks short of the freeze for the *next* Debian stable.
If you pick a version *now* that’ll have had a stable, supportable
formal release by then, and will put “Long Term Support” on it,
that’s really all a distributor needs. (I’m not really looking toward
Debian squeeze. In my totally private and personal opinion, it was not
a good release anyway. Our production Debian servers are mostly running
lenny still, and migrated to wheezy peu à peu.)
If we can find someone (you, Thorsten?) to support
1.15 then adding
support for 1.16 seems straightforward.
I don’t really want to support 1.15 if we get the things done before
wheezy is frozen. Also, I cannot commit to anything, maintenance-wise,
as I’m doing this during my dayjob (got way too many commitments in
my private time already) and cannot always promise things (in fact,
I’m seriously behind working on Mailman, which is the other big M
FusionForge uses).
My intent was more about getting a supported MW for the *next* Debian.
"Many hands make light work."
True.
> Of course pending the mediawiki-math is missing
issue
I've seen the discussion, but not followed it
closely. I'll try to look
in today and figure out what the issues are and if I can help.
Ah, ok. From what I’ve seen, Jonathan has packaged 1.18 for Debian
experimental, but it lacks mediawiki-math which is provided by 1.15
and used by our in-house FusionForge deployment (
evolvis.org).
bye,
//mirabilos
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