MediaWiki release cycle

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Contents 1 Version numbers 2 Release cycle 3 Release management 3.1 CVS 3.2 Tarballs 3.3 Announcements

[edit] Version numbers

major.minor.patchlevel (eg 1.3.0)

Patchlevels generally should not change functionality majorly, but should just be fixing bugs etc. A minor-number bump could change things vastly. We've never bumped the major version yet...

We do not use the Linux-style even/odd minor numbering system. Development versions so far aren't given specific numbers until we approach release and put out release candidates, at which point they're "1.2.0rc2" etc; in the meantime developers just work from CVS and try not to break it.

[edit] Release cycle

• Wikipedia Phase 3 goes online: July 2002
• "MediaWiki stable" tarballs go out August 2003
• 1.1 in November 2003
• 1.2 March 2004
• 1.3 August 2004
• 1.4 December 2004 (beta 1)
• 1.5 June 2005 (beta 1)

Release early, release often, we hope! 'Minor' releases have so far been a few months apart, perhaps accelerating.

Bug-fix patchlevel releases will continue to be put out as needed while the next big revision is being worked on.

[edit] Release management

Brion is currently handling release management and stable patch releases.

[edit] CVS

See MediaWiki from CVS for the CVS branch & tag names used to mark releases.

[edit] Tarballs

Put in the file section on http://sf.net/projects/wikipedia

[edit] Announcements

• Wikimedia mailing lists MediaWiki-L and Wikitech-L
• At http://www.mediawiki.org/
• On SourceForge via the file release system and the project news page
• Freshmeat.net
• in channel topic for #mediawiki