On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:17 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I believe the Debian MediaWIki maintainer has also
quit
At first I thought you meant quit maintaining mediawiki, looked at
archives a bit and now I guess you mean quit Debian altogether.
mediawiki packaging wasn't a single person working alone and still shouldn't be.
so the 1.19
in Debian won't be upgraded to 1.23 in the foreseeable future unless
someone steps up and takes over.
Anyway, Debian stable ("jessie") was just released (~5 weeks ago) so
we have plenty of
time for someone to get involved with MediaWiki packaging and get
changes into the next release. (even someone without prior Debian
experience)
Debian is somewhat open to meeting demand but also some things don't
get done unless you do the work yourself. If Debian releases are too
slow for you, imagine there could be a future with more options a la
http://mozilla.debian.net/. (e.g. latest LTS, wmf branches, latest
stable in addition to whichever LTS is currently in Debian
stable/testing)
Brenton, please see the links in the last few mails if you want to
work on this. (and let us know how it goes with Debian mentors)
-Jeremy