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Mentions to point releases

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Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

MediaWiki 1.20 doesn't have mentions to the point releases. They can be only found at Release notes/1.20. Maybe in 1.21 we can do better?

Having a little section for each point release would allow us to keep linking to the (hopefully localized) MediaWiki 1.21 announcement. The release notes could stay as they are, in English only and all the details of bugs fixed.

This discussion started in the context of Template_talk:Current_versions#New proposal.

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Nemo bis (talkcontribs)
Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

You are right... But on the other hand is kind of weird to have point releases out there not mentioned at all in the main page of the release they relate to. A simple mention linking to the release notes would do e.g.

  • YYYY/MM/DD - 1.x.y security release is out.

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Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

Release checklist lists all the templates which are updated when a new release is produced; there's plenty of templates, those should be used for this.

Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

How would you keep entries for 1.20.1 and 1.20.2 at MediaWiki 1.20 using those templates? They are updated every time a new release is available, isn't it. But thank you for the link to Release checklist. Should we move this thread there?

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Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

I don't know. I've added more links to the two templates above.

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