---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mark A. Hershberger" mah@everybody.org Date: Feb 25, 2013 10:03 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Release policy To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc:

After the discussion last week, I want to scope out a release policy so that we'll all know what to expect.

• A major release will be made every six months.

• An LTS release will be made every two years. There will be a one-year

overlap in LTS support. For example, 1.19 is supported until May 2015. 1.23 will be released the year before that so that people will have 1.23 available as an LTS to move to and a year to make the transition.

• Releases notes will continue to be the basis for seeing what has

changed. Because of the nature of a volunteer-driven project, it isn't possible to say with any certainty what *will* happen in the next 6-12 months.

• To mitigate the problem of release notes, we will publish a list of

new features in the upcoming LTS relative to the last LTS six months before it comes out. This means that about the time when 1.22 comes out, we'll have an announcement for 1.19 users letting them know what changes they can expect in 1.23.

• Point releases will be made periodically. Frequency TBD. Every point

release will include updated i18n files as well as any bug fixes. No new features will be back-ported to point releases.

Thanks,

Mark.

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