On Freitag, 13. Februar 2009, Yaron Koren wrote:
> Why not revert the changes that caused the problem, and re-release version
> 1.4.2?

Yes, I will probably do that. I was still in discussion with Siebrand 
regarding the versions of MW that we should/shouldn't support. Now I guess I 
will change the code to work on pre-1.14 and then re-release the file. I try 
doing this on the weekend.

- Markus

>
> -Yaron
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Markus Krötzsch <
>
> mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > it turns out that our recent SMW 1.4.2 release included a last minute
> > code change that makes SMW 1.4.2 incompatible to MediaWiki 1.11, 1.12,
> > and 1.13. While we generally encourage upgrading to recent MediaWiki
> > versions, it is not
> > our intention to break compatibility during a minor release! The problem
> > can
> > be solved by replacing the file ./special/AskSpecial/SMW_SpecialAsk.php
> > shipped with SMW 1.4.2 with the file found at [1]. Users of MW 1.14.0 or
> > greater are not affected.
> >
> > The problem is due to a lack of coordination among the MediaWiki
> > developers (many people contribute code directly, and they may not be
> > aware of SMW- specific release plans or guidelines), and also to a lack
> > of caution on my part (the change happened on Monday after I had already
> > finished most of my tests for SMW 1.4.2 -- I should have repeated them on
> > the changed code). Our
> > apologies to anyone who was affected.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
> > http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/extensions/SemanticMediaW
> >iki/REL_1_4_2/specials/AskSpecial/SMW_SpecialAsk_MW1.13.php
> >
> > --
> > Markus Krötzsch
> > Semantic MediaWiki    http://semantic-mediawiki.org
> > http://korrekt.org    mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org
> >
> >
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