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Hi,
I don't have a strong opinion about the specific function in this
case, but I did want to discuss a few things about the policy itself.
On 07/30/2018 06:28 AM, Stephan Gambke via Wikitech-l wrote:
I know it is annoying as heck to keep outdated code,
but if you ask
me, unless there is an immediate compelling reason for the removal
the deprecation policy should not be bypassed.
Just to be a bit pedantic here to ensure there isn't confusion - the
*policy* is not being bypassed. The policy has a provision for
"removal without deprecation"[1], which Aryeh is following here. The
deprecation *period* is being bypassed.
And in my opinion "I did not find any extension
that uses this
method" is not sufficient. Not all extensions/skins are hosted on
WMF servers.
If your extensions/skins are public, it's trivial to get them included
in codesearch[2] - if your code isn't on Gerrit, it can be added to[3].
The policy states: "Extensions that are open source will be given more
consideration than those that core developers cannot see." So it's
really in extension developers best interest to make their code
visible to core developers.
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deprecation_policy#Removal_without_deprec
ation
[2]
https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/
[3]
https://github.com/MWStake/nonwmf-extensions
- -- Legoktm
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