On 2013-12-06 12:31 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
The RELEASE-NOTES file should be useful for people who install MediaWiki on their servers. It isn't so useful for Wikipedia readers and editors. The Tech News should do the job of RELEASE-NOTES for Wikipedia readers and editors, and it's easy to update it because it's a wiki page. What can be suggested is that every time a significant feature that visibly affects end-users is merged, the developer who committed it should update the Tech News page, and before publishing Tech News a responsible editor (Guillaume?) should edit it and remove the less important things.
MediaWiki is not a Wikimedia-only product, Wikimedia and Wikipedia are one user of MediaWiki. And the MediaWiki development community is separate from Wikimedia and consists of more than just people developing features intended for the Wiki[pm]edia community. I do not believe it should be the responsibility of volunteer MediaWiki community developers to provide the on-site deployment news for a single user of the software.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]