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Next version of mw missing from navigation (1.31)

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121.219.12.173 (talkcontribs)

Go to MediaWiki 1.30, then check the navigation on the right, 1.30 and 1.32 is there, but 1.31 is missing. How am I supposed to easily get to the soon to be released next version without manually searching for it?

Jdforrester (WMF) (talkcontribs)

You aren't "supposed" to get unreleased versions. If they're not released yet, it's because they're not thought to be ready yet.

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

Jdforrester: That's nonsense. MediaWiki 1.31 is a Release Candidate. How can people test it to see if there are bugs previous to formal release if it isn't made available?

Also, that's not the object of the question. The box at the top-rigt of the page contains the following items:

The problem is that MediaWiki 1.31 is not appearing there (but 1.32 is!).

Jdforrester (WMF) (talkcontribs)
That's nonsense. MediaWiki 1.31 is a Release Candidate. How can people test it to see if there are bugs previous to formal release if it isn't made available?

Regular end-users are absolutely not the right audience for Release Candidate software. The people looking to test it out are likely expert MediaWiki sysadmins, developers, and others who follow the mediawiki-l mailing list, not the more normal kinds of sysadmins who aren't necessarily expert in how labyrinthine bugs in MediaWiki can be explored.

The problem is that MediaWiki 1.31 is not appearing there (but 1.32 is!).

Wait a week or whatever and it'll appear when it's released. I don't see this as a problem. When 121… asked "How am I supposed to easily get to the soon to be released next version without manually searching for it?", and answer is "you aren't".

(If instead you want to debate having a link to the bleeding-edge master in the list, that's a fine discussion point, but not really the question asked.)

192.232.155.200 (talkcontribs)

If the alpha version is there, the release candidate clearly should be too. It's simply easy navigation between relevant versions.

As for why should someone have easy access, maybe they want to easily see what is the upcoming version either because they are looking to update when it comes out, or are a user looking at the new features for when the wiki they use is updated?

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