On 22 February 2013 12:03, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Another thing that would be nice to have onhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle or elsewhere is what are reasonable expectations about the stable releases. For instance, we know that 1.x.0 releases are always a nightmare: they're practically untested; branch point is pseudo-random and we have no info whatsoever about the bugs that MediaWiki (and extensions) had at any given revision. It would be nice to write somewhere that, say, 5 months after the 1.x.0 release came out, it's reasonable to think that most of its critical bugs/regressions are fixed in the last 1.x.y release; while of course 1.(x-1).* and 1.(x+1).* will have different bugs.
Sounds LibreOffice-ish - they release a x.x.0 and schedule x.x.1 for a month after, with bug fixes, even if there's no security problems forcing a release.
- d.