On 5 April 2014 08:17, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com> wrote: ​What issue?​ ​Yes. You're meant to: - write your extension for $CURRENTVERSION; - Note that extensions are branched automatically when $CURRENTVERSION increments - users use the extension's branched version (e.g. REL1_22) for $THEIRVERSION; and - backport really urgent fixes from $CURRENTVERSION to old versions. If you *also* want to backport bug fixes and new functionality to older branched versions, that's great, but a lot of work. You may need to version each release branch for sanity if you have lots of these. It's generally worthwhile prioritising bug fixes over new functionality, and prioritising support for the versions of the extension matching the LTS versions of MediaWiki, as that is likely to be where many downstream users are. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

On Apr 5, 2014 1:09 PM, "Jeroen De Dauw" <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com> wrote: Well lots of people use separate branches for different versions of MW (including in particular the WMF). However i personally wouldn't want to try and force a particular development strategy on extension developers unless we had to, and from what I understand SMW folks have generally liked the one extension working with multiple mediawiki apptoach (I think, you would know better than me). To clarify, in this particular issue, what would you like to be done to address it? Are you simply looking for a revert, or is there some middle ground that would make both you and the people behind the patch happy. At this stage (just imho) I dont think I would support a revert because while annoying, its not horrendously annoying and the patch has been there for a while. However if there is something we could do to make this less annoying to people with your use case, while still accomplishing the point of the patch, that would be great. --bawolff

On 05.04.2014, 21:27 Jeroen wrote: Sounds reasonable to me --> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/124130 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

I know the wfDeprecated() has already been removed, but anyway… Couldn't you just create a MyExtensionNameSpecialPage class like below and extend that for your special pages instead of regular SpecialPage, which would let you always call the non-deprecated getPageTitle() instead of getTitle() even on ancient MediaWiki versions? class MyExtensionNameSpecialPage extends SpecialPage { function getPageTitle( $subpage = false ) { return self::getTitleFor( $this->mName, $subpage ); } } ($mName is protected, so this is fine, but you can always use getName() instead.) -- Matma Rex