Rob Lanphier wrote:
Hi everyone,
On IRC, Trevor lead the charge "to Etherpad!", and some of us followed. This was the result: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.17
This is an aggressive plan, starting with branching for 1.17 early next week. It is by no means official; Tim and Mark H are both named, but neither have weighed in, so don't take this as "the plan", but as a proposal for discussion here.
Rob
It's nice having a plan. But I wonder who will assign those "engineering resources"? And what will they be unassigned from?
Regarding the "Release manager" section, I have no problem aiding with merging (that is, provided I'm comfortable with the fix itself :) but I don't think that's something reserved to a few RM. Rather, if something is a bugfix affecting the branch, the commiter should backport it himself (or tag as 1.17, and delay the MFT until it gets reviewed).
We can't assume that any bugfix will be seen and cherrypicked as appropiate (even with more than one person doing that work).