On 22 September 2014 13:10, Mark A. Hershberger <mah(a)nichework.com> wrote:
In deference to the concerns raised by James
Forrester, Markus and I
have decided not to back out the REL1_24 branch.
Less than 80 hours have passed since the branch was made, so there
hasn't been time to make any major technical changes in the code base.
That leaves the social concerns that James raises. We respect him and
his work as product manager for editing and don't want to make him
suffer as the result of this snafu.
That said, I need to clarify some things about the schedule for
releases.
For about a year now, we've used the schedule:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiReleaseTeam/Release_timeline
Markus did filled in the dates as a result of this
situation, but we had already agreed on a release date, and, as a
result, a branch point.
(Markus and I are not the only people who have edited the
page, so it wasn't unknown. Still, we could have done a much better job
of publicizing it. Thankfully, this incident has led to it being
publicized.)
In this vein, we'd like to announce the date of the 1.25 release now and
its respective branch point.
1.25 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, May 27th, 2015. Using the
formula on that page (6 weeks prior to the release date), the branch
date for REL1_25 will be April 15th, 2015 and this will be announced
(again) on April 8th so that everyone will have a week's notice to merge
anything that is necessary for 1.25.
Thanks, and I hope this clarifies any misunderstanding.
Mark and Markus,
Thank you very much; sorry for putting you in an awkward position.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester