Hi Ike,

The key distinction is in the "Version lifecycle release policy" link for the ltsrel definition. Another way of phrasing it would be: "* long-term support release branches: For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release (see [[mw:Version lifecycle]]) there is a corresponding branch in the extension."

If that makes sense to you (and others) I can edit that page for clarity.

Greg

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 8:55 PM Ike Hecht ike@wikiteq.com wrote:

I'm confused about what the term "ltsrel" means. The way I understand it, it *should* mean that the extension supports only Long Term Support versions of MediaWiki. It would have a branch for every LTS version of MediaWiki like REL1_31 and REL1_35, but not for REL1_32, REL1_33 or REL1_34.

However, on the Compatibility https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#MediaWiki_extensions page, the rel and ltsrel policies are described as:

• release branches (key: rel): For every MediaWiki release, there is a

corresponding branch in the extension. So e.g. if you use MediaWiki 1.36, you should use the REL1_36 branch of the extension.

• long-term support release branches (key: ltsrel): For every MediaWiki

release, there is a corresponding branch in the extension, following the Version lifecycle release policy.

These sound exactly alike to me.

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