How can we summarize the changes for installations users should expect to notice when migrating from 1.27 LTS to 1.31 LTS?
Topic on Talk:MediaWiki 1.31
I agree with this sentiment. At the very least, a sub-page with any breaking changes and migration notes, since I definitely think that many users will be migrating directly from 1.27.
Currently your best and only shot is Release notes/1.31
So the official statement, then, is, "no, we won't bother to provide summaries for LTS users, they just have to wade through all the release notes and try to make sense of it themselves"?? As an LTS user who's more interested in having a stable, supported wiki and focused on developing the ''content'' of my wiki rather than every minor detail about what's going on under the hood, I'm not sure I appreciate that answer. I have a hard time making sense of the release notes already ... most of it is quite obscure to anyone but developers. I thought the whole point of LTS releases was to have a stable, supported release that may not have the latest features, but does have security / bug fixes, for users who are NOT developers, and are just using this as a platform for their content?
I hope this will get serious consideration. The alternative would be investigate other platforms and move off of MediaWiki entirely. --~~~~
Yeah, a summery would be nice to have. But what's the problem in rading 4 (four) pages? It's a wiki after all - if you want a summary, write a summary! :-)
From: Version lifecycle page
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- To mitigate the problem of release notes, we will publish a list of new features in the upcoming LTS relative to the last LTS six months before it comes out. This means that about the time when 1.26 came out, an announcement was made for 1.23 users letting them know what changes they could expect in 1.27.
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So where are these announcements? For sure not on the MediaWiki-announce mailing list at least.
Is the Version lifecycle page out of date or did someone forget?