Silke Meyer wrote:
When it comes to the question of migrating tools to
Tool Labs, some of
you might notice that you don't have the amount of time needed for
maintenance that you had earlier. WMDE offered to help you with the
actual migration but we can't maintain abandoned tools in the long run.
For migration support, contact me!
Any really important or very popular tools should be made into MediaWiki
extensions or put in MediaWiki core. The Toolserver (and now Tool Labs) is
a good environment for proofs-of-concept, but neither are stable or
well-supported enough for production-like use.
As an example, I deprecated my "watcher" tool by incorporating it into
MediaWiki core's "info" action. Now the maintenance burden is on
MediaWiki's shoulders. :-)
MZMcBride
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