On 1 June 2014 21:09, John <phoenixoverride@gmail.com> wrote:

Until such time as core has moved all the features over and has proven stable that shouldnt happen. Given the number of problems and missing features that should be a minimum of 6 months away.

Given that compat is already de facto deprecated -- bugs take ages to fix and review, I think the question is not 'should we deprecate compat', but 'should we notify users compat is de facto deprecated'.

In any case, there is some more discussion at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Deprecate_pywikibot-compat