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