Installer preview

I promised some screenshots of Tim’s new installer branch that I’ve been poking at. Here they are. The first one I’d like to show off (and I think many people will applaud) is that the installer is now able to be translated! Here we’ve got a screenshot of the language selection screen in the installer. [...]

MW 1.16

MediaWiki version 1.16 is already looking to be a massive release. Since the 1.15 branch, we’ve seen Michael Dale’s upload branch merged, my maintenance overhaul branch merged, a new skin, dozens of bugs fixed and enhancements added, thousands of translations updated…have I missed anything? I probably have. MediaWiki was branched in from r48811 (plus a [...]

Branch merge

Also briefly (I didn’t blog this already?), I merged the maintenance branch in r54225! Had some cleanup (ok, a lot of cleanup), but everything seems to be ok now. Last major goals with this: finish cleanup of scripts to subclass Maintenance, phase out WMF-specific crap, remove last of the ancient and unused stuff, overhaul update [...]