Semanticmediawiki: SMW 4.0

[JeroenDeDauw]

Miletone: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/milestone/41

Release notes: https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/releasenotes/RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.0.md#semantic-mediawiki-400

[JeroenDeDauw]

My current thinking is that it probably makes sense to drop support for MW older than 1.35 on master / for SMW 4.0. Given limited volunteer time to deal with MW 1.35 issues (*), 1.35 being an LTS and little in the way of feature development happening in SMW at the moment, this seems like a good deal. It is what I am doing for Maps.

(*) Dealing with those issues is easier if you do not need to stay compatible with older versions

@kghbln

[kghbln]

We just have to make sure that both releases overlap for the support of the latest LTS of MW, i.e. 1.35. Since both 3.2 and 4.0 will support 1.35 I have no objections. Probably we should still do MW 1.34 since this is currently supported though this depends on when we do the 4.0 release.

[JeroenDeDauw]

Probably we should still do MW 1.34 since this is currently supported though this depends on when we do the 4.0 release.

The way I look at things this actually does not make sense. If we release in a year and don't support 1.34, or release now and don't support it, either way, people using 1.34 are not affected. What is different is that people using 1.35 get a new release sooner. Having a release optimized for 1.35 soon is additive. It does not take away from the recent 3.2 release. You could think of it as a 1.35 optimized version of SMW 3.2.