Talk:Release checklist

Docker image?

Should there be a dedicated item for major releases about [filing a task about] creating a Docker image, like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213529 ? AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 14:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

If we do it, we should do it correct from the beginning and automate it, which would mean some subtask of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156445 Greg (WMF) (talk) 17:05, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

I think it should be up to the maintainers of the Docker image to keep on top of it (and they already do).

For automating docker specifically, we discussed it on https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-docker/pull/36 but never finished the implementation.

And Debian has its own system of detecting new upstream releases: https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=mediawiki Legoktm (talk) 21:26, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

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Could someone who knows add updating at the right place, please? TIA AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 08:00, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

If you mean "please fiddle with Module:Version to tell it that REL1_37 has been branched as is a beta now, and 1.38 is the current master/alpha", then done. :-)

(If you mean something else, sorry, not sure what you mean.) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:11, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Heh, thanks! (Looks like Module:Version is already covered in the docs; it wasn't clear to me that this is the one to change.) AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 06:24, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

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Add updates to Version lifecycle

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Is this checklist the right place to include updates to this table of version numbers, or do those decisions happen outside the release checklist? APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 19:25, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Generally those are outside the release checklist; they're more for planning out releases in future, and marking EOL ones as they happen, and so are done as part of the Security releases. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

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Release notes

Maybe I'm being extra dense today but I fail to see in the checklist a clear step where the releasenotes are supposed to be copied over to mediawiki.org for a new release. When 1.43.1 was released, Release_notes/1.43 remained untouched for several days (the 1.43.1 release date in the front page must be still wrong) until I went and copied the releasenotes myself out of free will. If I'm right and this step is missing, I suggest "someone" adds it.

Something similar happened with the release of 1.43.0 where the page still referred to it as a "future" version several days after the release.Tactica (talk) 16:32, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

@Tactica: I think the problem is that the on-wiki fork of the release note has always been an unofficial process, almost always only done by non-staff; it's not part of this process. It's quite troubling that the on-wiki bits diverge from the real release notes over time, for instance; having them on-wiki is not a great choice, but there's no way to embed the current git file contents on-wiki, we're only able to link to them. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:30, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@Jdforrester (WMF): I don't mind helping keep the on-wiki relnotes and other bits up to date but I also count on you devs fixing T409283 for 1.45.2. :-) Tactica (talk) 06:02, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

@Tactica: That kind of fix will be back-ported everywhere as part of PHP 8.4 support, worry not! Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 18:23, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

1.45 announcement

@Jdforrester (WMF): You marked step "Send an announcement e-mail" as Done, however I haven't heard a peep from mediawiki-announce and the related link is still for 1.44. Just FYI. Tactica (talk) 18:25, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@Tactica: Yeah, I noticed that — I'll prod the listmods to make sure it gets through the limit. This was the announcement as sent to wikitech-l. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 19:28, 8 December 2025 (UTC)