On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Robert Leverington <rob...@rhl.me.uk>wrote:

> On 2009-07-30, Brian wrote:
> > Can we please have a the WMF deployment branch be a branch of an
> untainted
> > branch of the particular revision that is considered stable?
>
> This is, and always has been, the latest release (e.g. MediaWiki
> 1.15.1).  If you want to run beyond-stable you cannot expect developers
> who already don't have enough time to spoon feed you information they
> don't have.  The WMF deployment branch is already well beyond what end
> users should expect.
>
> --
> Robert Leverington
> http://rhl.me.uk/
>

The versioning interactions between mediawiki and its extensions are so
complicated that it is simply not feasible to run the latest release while
simultaneously using a variety of extensions.

Additionally, I strongly disagree with your definition of the code being
used on Wikipedia as beyond stable.
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