I am pleased to announce (after far too long of a delay, my apologies), that Mark Hershberger and Markus Glaser will take on the task of managing the third-party releases of MediaWiki for another year.

Congrats Mark and Markus!

I'd like to explicitly thank the International Consortium team for their proposal. The choice was indeed a hard one to make and I'm glad we had the second proposal to add context and perspective to Mark's and Markus's.

There will be a few changes to this work this coming year, mostly in terms of transparency. Mark and Markus have agreed to conduct quarterly reviews for their work and the output of those meetings will be publicly shared. That means you'll (soon) be able to see the quarterly goals and their progress. Also, we hope to see more collaboration between Mark and Markus and the wider community in the supportive work; the work that everyone can help with to make the releases as good as they can be. We'll be monitoring this collaboration in review process over the course of the year and we currently plan to call out collaboration goals in next year's call for proposals.

I look forward to another year of working with Mark and Markus!

Best,

Greg