On Nov 9, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
It looks like our .plan is to get 1.4 by the end of
the year. I believe
we should call for a "feature freeze" soon and launch the beta at the
beginning of december.
I would like to be ready to launch a beta and rollout on Wiki[mp]edia
sites by two weeks from now (November 24), with a hard limit of three
weeks (December 1).
Given that most dev will probably be out during the
last weeks of
december that will let us until ~ december 20th to fix the most
important bugs. Then in January we can work toward the release
candidate
/ 1.4.0.
There is two huge patch as far as I know:
- Enotif : bring email notification in MediaWiki
_ Database schema change.
I like the way it's going to look, but there's just a lot of little
things to fix up and it's going to take a while. We should merge the
SCHEMA_WORK new schema in once we've got 1.4 rolled out.
I'd also like to move the release schedule up in the future; we've been
doing roughly three major releases a year, about 4 months apart. As
Tim's noted, we'd generally benefit more from faster integration. Being
a distributed, volunteer development team without any solid time
commitments from people makes smaller, focused releases harder to do,
unfortunately, but I'd like to see us try harder.
In particular we need to look at exposing extension hooks to make it
easy for people to plug in their custom modules.
Enotif can probably be commited by the end of november
and be shipped
in
the first 1.4 beta.
I'd like to merge the back-end support for it (the change to the
watchlist database) so it can be added as an extension more easily. If
a clean, stable notification front-end fits too in time, we'll see.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)