[Wikitech-l] Extensions and LTS

On 02/12/2013 08:14 AM, Maria Miteva wrote: This makes me very happy. I'm going to start paying close attention to people who have problems upgrading from 1.19 over the next couple of years so that when we hit the next LTS (1.25) in 2015, we'll have fewer issues for the people moving from 1.19 to 1.25. I would like to ask your help with this, of course. If you see something that you think we should take note of and fix, let me know. A big part of this is going to be those non-WMF extensions that people like to use. I'm not too worried about the popular SMW extensions -- the SMW folks have a good handle on the LTS -- but if you install an extension with the expectation that it will be maintained for LTS releases, you need to make sure that it is going to be supported. I'd like to think that extensions in [[Category:Stable_extensions]] will be maintained, but maybe that isn't right. I certainly haven't tried all of them against 1.19. Developers can help out with this. On Debian, for example, developers can announce that they're orphaning a package and it needs a new maintainer. Ideally, a developer would find someone to maintain his own extension, but if you see an orphaned extension or just don't feel like maintaining one any more, please add {{Unmaintained extension}} to its page on MediaWiki.org. That said, I've created a category page on MediaWiki.org -- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Not_LTS_ready -- for extensions are marked Stable but unmaintained. (I still have to actually put pages in the category, but I'll do that after dinner.) Mark.