Every once in awhile I've found an idea for a service which would for
one reason or another need to know what releases of MediaWiki exist and
which ones are obsolete.
As far as I know, we don't have any sort of API or machine readable
metadata at all declaring this information for services to use.
I'd like to see a change to the release workflow made that would support
this use case.
Some time ago I thought we should do this with an api, but now I think
we can probably cover this by publishing a simple json file at either
one of these urls:
https://www.mediawiki.org/releases.json
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/releases.json
The file will need to be updated every time a new release is made or an
old one becomes obsolete.
What does everyone and the release managers think?
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://danielfriesen.name/]