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
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