On what platforms do you plan to support running of MediaWiki, for example Linux distributions, Windows, Mac? Are there going to be differences in the level of support per platform?
How do you plan to support it on those platforms? For example providing installer for Windows, making sure Linux distributions have packages for recent versions, help them doing security backports etc.?
We've specifically talked about Linux and Windows. I'm not sure about Macs.
I'm already working with packagers for Debian and Fedora. I plan on continuing that.
Debian is on the LTS release and has been actively applying security fixes.
Ubuntu, based on Debian, has 1.19 in Raring and Quantal.
Fedora has 1.19 in Fedora 18, but 1.21 in the later versions. I only started working with them so they don't have security updates yet. My understanding is that packages go into Fedora before the go into RHEL and CentOS, but I'll verify this with the Fedora manager.
I've worked on installers for Windows so I could do that in a pinch. This would probably be something that we should find another organisation to do, though, and work with them in the same way I've been working with Debian packagers.
I would expect to work with another community, like Fink or MacPorts, to do the same for Macs.
