-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Before I release a formal 1.6.0, I'd like if a few people would quickly test installation of the current snapshot. Generally 1.6 is working quite nice on our own servers, but the installation and updater code might not be as well exercised. I've done a few basic smoke tests on my own, but a few more under different conditions might be wise before we make a fuss about The Big Release. Download: http://svn.wikimedia.org/snapshots/mediawiki-snapshot-20060404.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 352de479b8eada133de1247badd3677a Release notes (not finalized): http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES As a reminder, we're planning to start on a quarterly snapshot release schedule; about every three months we'll take what's currently running, branch it off and release it. Security updates will continue to be made on those release branches for some time, but feature development and non-essential bugfixes generally will go on the mainline and be available in the next quarterly release. So 1.7 is tentatively scheduled for July; 1.8 for October, 1.9 (?) for January, etc. - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Before I release a formal 1.6.0, I'd like if a few people would quickly test installation of the current snapshot. Generally 1.6 is working quite nice on our own servers, but the installation and updater code might not be as well exercised. I've done a few basic smoke tests on my own, but a few more under different conditions might be wise before we make a fuss about The Big Release. Download: http://svn.wikimedia.org/snapshots/mediawiki-snapshot-20060404.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 352de479b8eada133de1247badd3677a Release notes (not finalized): http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

As a reminder, we're planning to start on a quarterly snapshot release schedule; about every three months we'll take what's currently running, branch it off and release it. Security updates will continue to be made on those release branches for some time, but feature development and non-essential bugfixes generally will go on the mainline and be available in the next quarterly release. So 1.7 is tentatively scheduled for July; 1.8 for October, 1.9 (?) for January, etc. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l