Roadmap/Archive

Per-release Roadmaps
Each release has two components: the deployment to Wikimedia Foundation websites, followed by downloadable tarball release for general use.


 * MediaWiki_roadmap/1.17
 * Deployment: completed March 2011
 * Release: very nearly complete as of May 2011 (cf. MediaWiki roadmap/1.17/Revision report)
 * MediaWiki_roadmap/1.18
 * Deployment: Targeting July 2011 (confidence: 30%)
 * Release: August 2011
 * MediaWiki_roadmap/1.19
 * Deployment: targeting October 2011 (confidence: 20%)
 * Release: November 2011
 * MediaWiki_roadmap/1.20
 * Deployment: targeting January 2012 (confidence: 10%)
 * Release: February 2012

Major features
The following table lists some of the key development activities for the MediaWiki software.

'''Please don't add items to this list if you're not actually actively working on MediaWiki. This is not a wishlist.''' (Bug reports and feature requests should be filed on BugZilla as usual.)

General concerns

 * Work to improve caching hit rates, on MW side and squid sides
 * Document functions. Many have no comments and the argument forms are unintuitive