Hi all!
At the ArchCom office hour (aka RFC IRC meeting) on December 14, we discussed Legoktm's proposal for a deprecation policy for PHP code [1]. This would supersede the current guideline [2], allowing deprecated code to be removed after a couple of releases, even if it may still used by some extensions.
At the IRC meeting, we decided to approve this policy for a final call [3][4]. This means that it will be adopted as official policy if no new pertinent issues are raised within a week.
Cheers, Daniel
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Deprecation_policy [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deprecation [3] https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/ wikimedia-office.2016-12-14-22.04.html [4] https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/ wikimedia-office.2016-12-14-22.04.log.html