On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed, by reading https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20 one would think that nobody has been done in 1.20, except perhaps some localisation work. :p
One thing that we might want to take note of is new extensions that require 1.20 in order to run. A lot of time, the work that happens in core is in service of writing extensions (new hooks and other architectural shuffling). For example, here's the new hooks in 1.20: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Hooks_added_in_MediaWiki_1.20.0
I'm sure all of those hooks have a corresponding extension that needs the new hook.
Of course, maybe all new extensions would be candidates for inclusion, regardless of whether they require 1.20. A lot of the functionality that end-users and site administrators really care about exists in extensions. Deciding which extensions are noteworthy for release notes is perhaps a tough problem, so I could understand a desire not to get mired in that discussion, but I suspect its the work we all do on extensions that people look for when they're looking for the new goodies in 1.20.
Rob