On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We think this will be a better approach for everyone.
Our only remaining
question is when and if to do release number bumps in future. We'll be back
with an answer about that shortly... ideas welcomed.
Who is the target audience of release numbers? If it is third-party wikis,
they will probably only care about release branches (REL1_26 etc) and you
don't have to do anything about that (except backporting fixes for
especially nasty bugs), extension branches get split automatically whenever
there is a new MediaWiki release.
On the topic of +2 vs. accepting tasks in Scrum, synchronizing the scrum
schedule with the release process (so that sprints start on Tuesday and end
on Monday) reduces the pain. Although if you use two-week sprints that's
probably less useful.