[Mediawiki-l] Test snapshot for MediaWiki 1.6.0

Tue Apr 4 12:21:07 UTC 2006

Brion,

You're in luck (or I am, depending). I had just completed a complete
offline file copy of the entire wiki and supporting structure when
your email showed up.

Now, I feel ready for some virtual excitement. I'll go try it upgrade
from 1.5.2 to this release.

On 4/4/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Before I release a formal 1.6.0, I'd like if a few people would quickly test
> installation of the current snapshot.
>
> Generally 1.6 is working quite nice on our own servers, but the installation and
> updater code might not be as well exercised. I've done a few basic smoke tests
> on my own, but a few more under different conditions might be wise before we
> make a fuss about The Big Release.
>
> Download:
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/snapshots/mediawiki-snapshot-20060404.tar.gz
> MD5 checksum: 352de479b8eada133de1247badd3677a
>
> Release notes (not finalized):
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
>
>
> As a reminder, we're planning to start on a quarterly snapshot release schedule;
> about every three months we'll take what's currently running, branch it off and
> release it. Security updates will continue to be made on those release branches
> for some time, but feature development and non-essential bugfixes generally will
> go on the mainline and be available in the next quarterly release.
>
> So 1.7 is tentatively scheduled for July; 1.8 for October, 1.9 (?) for January, etc.
>
> - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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