Thread:Talk:Release Management RFP/EIJL/Random thoughts / comments I had whilst reading

Release Process It's indicated that critical/blocker bugs will be addressed and that all bugs in Bugzilla will have milestone and backport information to help in the RC and Stable release processes. As not all bugs have bugzilla entries, our release notes are pretty terrible, and our BZ meta data is not yet amazing -- can you flesh out a bit more what you expect your role will be in improving these things as they seem key to your success?

Maintaining Extensions In the webchat you brought up testing and integrating with wikiapiary for extension management. Is this in effect a suggestion that wikiapiary becomes the primary point for extension distribution / metadata about reliability? Or are you going to somehow integrate that data back onto MediaWiki.org/wiki/Extension:??? so its all in the same place?

Thoughts about packaging / version management for extensions -- are you going to be responsible for backports here as well? Or just the documentation on how to do it?

Fundraising You talk about fundraising -- where are you planning on doing this fundraising? On MW.org? On Wikiapiary? A new place?

Packaging / Multiple OS support Are you planning on only supporting LAMP stacks installed via git/tarball? Or do you have any plans for supporting alternate databases and operating systems? How about reaching out to/maintaining the debian/rhel/macports packages of MediaWiki?