On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 8:17:25 PM Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Rob Lanphier" <ro...@wikimedia.org> >> >> > On the leadership front, let me throw out a hypothetical: should we >> > have MediaWiki 2.0, where we start with an empty repository and build >> > up? If so, who makes that decision? If not, what is our alternative >> > vision? Who is going to define it? Is what we have good enough? >> >> <shrug/> >> >> :-) >> >> Seriously: Oh ghod, please, no. I'm not a real big fan of Joel Spolsky, >> as some people are, but I do in general agree with his assertion that >> throwing everything out and starting from scratch is nearly always an >> unconscionable approach to anything, especially something as sizable as >> MediaWiki. >> >> > Agreed. Although it means we'll never be able to use 2.0 because > "2.0" from "1.x" has total rewrite implications even if it's not true. > > I've been saying for over a year now we should just drop the 1. from > the 1.x.y release versions. So the next release would be 25.0, 26.0, > etc etc.
The current versioning scheme certainly doesn't follow "semver" [0]. The deprecation page [1] (which is itself deprecated?) suggests that the major version should probably be bumped at least every two releases and I imagine that we have been changing APIs often enough that really every 1.x release is a major version release, so +1 from me. [0]: http://semver.org/ [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deprecation Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
