On 21 February 2013 16:02, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazeland@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.orgwrote:
- Champion features that non-WMF users want. This includes things like searching inside a category and a WYSIWYG editor.
As a non-native speaker I sometimes have to look things up in a dictionary. In this case I found out that "to champion" means "to fight for or defend a cause." Very noble of you. Please do ask for help, because those fights can be very lonely otherwise :).
Speaking as a tarball user, I'd expect from an LTS like 1.19:
* Security maintenance. This is the main thing for me. * Preservation of internal and external APIs. We were actually caught by the API change between 1.15.3 and 1.15.4 - which was necessary for security reasons, but I'd expect no other reason for an API change. And the internal API-like things that extension users use, so that an extension written to 1.19 would keep working. * Last: new features, a visual editor, etc. I would expect that new things would require a later version.
So basically as a sysadmin I'm after stability. How do others' expectations measure up?
- d.