Hi all,

Forwarding some interesting information about MediaWiki's release cycle for those who might not have seen Mark's email.

Mariya

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:02 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Release policy To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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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