2007/2/6, Daniel Israel dmi1@hushmail.com:
I'm setting up a wiki, and there are several extensions from either meta or mediawiki.org that would be quite useful. My concern is that if I install an extension and it breaks in some future mediawiki upgrade, I'm going to be stuck either re-writing 100s of wiki pages, or debugging the extension.
In general, is there any policy for the mediawiki developers as far as testing that extensions continue to work? If not, can I have any reasonable confidence level? Experience, anyone?
Some extensions are no longer maintained.
I suppose you can either make do without extensions or use them and delay a future MediaWiki upgrade until you or someone can fix an extension that did break.