Hi,

While people might want to have something like LTS (long term
support), you have to remember that MW has a vibrant group of
contributors where SMW as it stance right now (counting on the commit
history of the last 12 month [1]) only has four people contributing on
a more frequent base(at least once a month, without counting
translations).

Keeping SMW1.9/MW1.19 as LTS would mean you have to maintain a
different code base throughout your development branch which means an
increased effort to maintain new developments and "old" developments.

I would guess that LTS is something a commercial enterprise is more
suited to deliver than asking volunteer developers to keep in mind
when they want to shift the border of software functionality.

PS: Personally, I had already had my fights in keeping some parts of
SMW 1.8 in alignment with MW 1.17.

[1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/smw/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo

Cheers

On 12/4/12, Neill Mitchell <ne...@nlkmitchell.com> wrote:
> Mediawiki is now offering long term support for MW 1.19. Will the same
> policy be applied same with SMW?
>
> Best regards
> Neill.
> On 02/12/12 10:50, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
>> +1 for dropping 1.18 in 1.9.
>>
>> Markus
>>
>> On 02/12/12 02:43, James HK wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks. You read my mind, I was just about to write a similar email as
>>> it happens 1.18 already dropped from the official MW supporting list
>>> [1].
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> On 12/2/12, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> Since the 1.8 release got relayed quited a bit (it was originally
>>>> scheduled
>>>> for September and will be made tomorrow) I suggest we do not just drop
>>>> support for MediaWiki 1.17 but for 1.18 as well. Assuming we manage to
>>>> stick to the release schedule for 1.9, MediaWiki 1.19 will have been
>>>> available for almost a year at the point of release. Any objections? If
>>>> not, I'll update the roadmap [0].
>>>>
>>>> [0] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap#SMW_1.9
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jeroen De Dauw
>>>> http://www.bn2vs.com
>>>> Don't panic. Don't be evil.
>>>> --
>>>>
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