On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> > So... is the 1.8.x branch currently secure, or insecure?
>
> Apart from master it is the most secure branch we have.
>
>
Great. So all security fixes in master are always backported here?


>
> > Using master isn't really an option as breaking changes land very often
> in SMW.
>
> What kind of breaking changes are you talking about? From a user
> perspective there are very rarely changes that break existing usage. And
> master should not contain real broken code. Since we used to not have
> tests, not have CI and not have reviews at all as short as a year and a
> half ago, the later point used to not be respected as much as it is now.
>
> We have a lot of people running master, including some that got some
> random revision and then did not update for a long time:
> http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki
>
>
Good to know. I was basing this off of past experience, where wikis I
managed were often broken due to SMW running trunk.

- Ryan
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