Hello everyone,
this is to announce the REL1_23 branch for the upcoming MediaWiki 1.23.0 release was created. The release is scheduled for 6 weeks from now, no later than May 29th.
In order to facilitate this, please make sure anything you want in 1.23 is ready within a week. The first release candidate will be published on April 24th. We'll probably do a couple merges from the WMF branches in the process of making release candidates, but I'd like to have any major changes in within the next week.
During the period leading up the release, please consider using the "critical" severity level ensure any release critical bugs are logged and tracked.
In addition, please look over https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23 and help update it since it will be used in our release announcement.
Thanks,
Markus (Release Management Team)