awaiting you comments :)
Sure. Who are you? Do you have CVS access? Why are you doing a unilateral re-write? Why aren't the rest of the developers invited? Why should your unilateral re-write become THE mediawiki? Where's the design docs, and where's the code? Why are you using the obsolete "phase N" naming convention rather than the current MediaWiki 1.x (or 2.x) versioning scheme?
~ESP