On Thu, 2022-01-06 at 11:26 -0700, Keith Christian wrote:
Does the extension to provide equivalent capability exist yet? Does the MW team plan to write one? If not, why not wait until the extension is written and the option to use it is available before deprecating the function provided by $wgUseCategoryBrowser ?
Spending time to implement stuff that nobody may ever need or use is not a good use of time. That's the reason for the public call to please provide specific use cases. Waiting (and not removing cruft) leads to a code base becoming less and less maintainable and more buggy.
Cheers, andre