Hi everyone,
due to a blocking bug in the installer of the latest release candidate, MW 1.23.0-rc.2, we decided to release another RC before the final version as soon as a patch is available and merged. This also means, the actual release of MW 1.23.0 will be delayed by one week. New release date is Wednesday, June 4th.
Best, Markus
On 5/27/14, 7:02 AM, Markus Glaser wrote:
Hi everyone,
due to a blocking bug in the installer of the latest release candidate, MW 1.23.0-rc.2, we decided to release another RC before the final version as soon as a patch is available and merged. This also means, the actual release of MW 1.23.0 will be delayed by one week. New release date is Wednesday, June 4th.
Which bug specifically? I'm guessing it's bug 63677, but there are still a few other open ones with a target milestone of 1.23.
I admit I haven't been tracking the release progress very much, but it would have been nice if there had been an email to wikitech-l a week or so ago saying that there's still a blocker that needs help/patches/reviews; I (and probably other people) would have been willing to help out so we don't end up in the situation we're in right now where the patch is trivial but just needed people to look at it.
-- Legoktm
Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com writes:
I admit I haven't been tracking the release progress very much, but it would have been nice if there had been an email to wikitech-l a week or so ago saying that there's still a blocker that needs help/patches/reviews; I (and probably other people) would have been willing to help out so we don't end up in the situation we're in right now where the patch is trivial but just needed people to look at it.
Thanks for the feedback. This will help us improve and refine the release process.
That bug is one of the issues that needs to be fixed, but there are a couple more that we're looking at:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/63677 -- Update script is failing midway due to unknown 'user_password_expires' column https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43817 -- Include short descriptions for extensions bundled in the release https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/65765 -- populateRevisionLength.php displays "Content of archive unavailable" error when updating ar_len field with text stored in archive table
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