Talk:Release Management RFP/2014/Consortium

In-place updates
Forgive the ignorance, I understand the optional schema changes but I'm not sure what the first two bullets imply. (Was SVN better than Git at this, by they way?) So my question is: will you always offer .patch files from one minor (and major?) release to the next, as some people asked on mediawiki-l? --Nemo 09:38, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Release branches for extensions
«Release branches should be properly verified to work before being published», WOW. If you managed to, you'd the ultimate heros of MediaWiki hosts. To be more realistic, you may want to draw a line somewhere: not 3000 extensions existing in the wild, but "only" the few hundreds in gerrit; or only the N hundreds which are above X usage outside Wikimedia wikis; or only the ~hundred in use on Wikimedia wikis; whatever. --Nemo 09:44, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Guides for sysadmins and developers for updates
So you'd handle what's IMHO the single most important documentation deficiency of MediaWiki after help pages, i.e. Thread:Project:Current issues/Installation guide consolidation? :) --Nemo 09:48, 14 June 2014 (UTC)