On 02/06/2013 01:14 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
More refactorings and rewrites are needed (like ContentHandler) to get MediaWiki back to enabling the development of new ideas rather that limiting that. At the same time constantly changing interfaces and breaking existing extensions will annoy people depending how much we will put effort into keeping backwards compatibility. Can't please everyone.
You're right, you can't please everyone, but we should at least have some sort of support for legacy interfaces.
That, and coordinating with the authors of the impacted extensions would also help.