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/]