Hello Gatherlings and other folks who may or may not be interested,
Today Gather's 1.26wmf3 deployment branch was updated to master and
deployed to wikis running 1.26wmf3. Tomorrow en.wiki is riding the
deployment train and all wikis will be updated to wmf3 [1] So our latest
changes will be reflected then.
The reason we cannot deploy master to wmf2 today is because of the API
change [2]. This change is not backwards compatible, therefore
cherry-picking it to wmf2 would in no doubt have had unforeseen
complications with other extensions / core components on wmf2 deployment
branch.
Core changes like this with massive deprecations / non-backwards
compatibility while rare, is a battle we face when doing weekly updates.
1:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap
2:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/182858
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Rob Moen
Wikimedia Foundation
rmoen(a)wikimedia.org