On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)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