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* Api Edit ongoing development in a branch (as is currently happening).
* MediaWiki 1.11 released. Does not include Api Edit, because it's a substantial new feature
  and therefore should be allowed sufficient time to stabilize and be thoroughly tested
  before being included in a stable MediaWiki release.
* One week or so passes after 1.11 release so as to deal with any general post-release issues
  (e.g. people with different configurations find that things that work okay for us are broken
  for them)
* Api Edit deemed by Vodafone developers & Yuri to be ready for public consumption.
* General announcement sent to wikitech-l and this list, announcing the imminent merge of Api Edit,
  giving examples of how to use Api Edit, how to test it, things to test, reminder of how to log
  bugs in bugzilla under the "API" category in the event of finding problems, pointers to
  the documentation, pointers to this mailing list, and so forth.
* Perhaps one last pre-Api-edit scap / sync to servers.
* Api Edit merged into SVN trunk. I am assuming that the Vodafone folks are mostly Mon-Friday
  9-to-5 folks, and therefore the merge should probably happen on a Monday or a Tuesday, rather
  than a Thurs / Fri / Sat / Sun, so that they are accessible for a few days after the merge.
* Other developers get a few days to play with the merged Api Edit on their SVN test machines,
  try it, and test it, etc. Presumably some bugs are logged, some bugs are fixed, there's some
  standard whinging about instead of doing A can it do B, etc.
* Assuming things are going okay with Api Edit, another scap could occur, and at this point
  Api Edit would be live on the Wikipedia. (And if things are going badly and major bugs or 
  regressions are going unfixed, then it could be reverted, until those issues have been 
  resolved in the branch).
* Situation normal: Bugs logged, fixed, etc, as per normal, for a few months. Incremental
  updates to Api Edit occur in mainline / trunk.
* Around 3 months after 1.11, MediaWiki 1.12 is released, which includes Api Edit, thus making 
  it generally available to MediaWiki installations / upgrades in a stable release.

So:
* As a lower bound, the time between now and Api Edit being live on the Wikipedia is around
  3 weeks. That assumes that Api Edit is going to be considered ready one week or so after
  the release of 1.11 (I have no idea if that's plausible or not), and that everything else
  that comes before it in the above timeline goes smoothly.
* If Api Edit is not ready in the above timeframe, then the time it takes to get it to that
  stage must be factored in as well.

And of course, the above is just my personal 2 cents as the order in which I would like things
to happen - but it may have no correlation whatsoever with what actually ends up happening :-)

-- All the best,
Nick.