Steve Bennett wrote:
Three negative comments about the MediaWiki developers in a row. How about some nice comments, about anything, for a change?
I'm sure they're well-groomed? :)
I don't have any negative comments to make about MediaWiki developers in general, indeed in general I think they've put out a remarkable piece of software. It's not every day that a piece of software is custom-designed for free and then proceeds to handle the sort of workload that Wikipedia puts on it.
But in this one particular instance of the stable version feature, I must admit that I have become tremendously frustrated by how long something like this been promised but not delivered. I don't expect it's any specific person's fault, perhaps just a systemic problem resulting from the crossover of the software development side and the editor side of decision-making processes, but from the outside it's not obvious what the holdup is.