Chad wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:21 AM Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
This is a reminder that AjaxDispatcher and the Sajax js library have been deprecated for a while now (many years). They are still around due to them having been exempted from our deprecation policy – this because these features (as well as their deprecation) predate the existence of this policy and are part of our legacy stack.
I'd like to propose their removal in MediaWiki 1.26.0. This is expected to release in November 2015 [1] for third-parties. For Wikimedia sites we'd drop it in June 2015 halfway our 1.26wmf branch cycle. Well after 1.25wmf22[2], and shortly after the Lyon Hackathon. [4]
That's soon, really soon. I have no love for this code but are we sure that we can fix that list of extensions below in time? Well I know we can, but are we actually going to?
For MediaWiki the package, November 2015 sounds fine to me. (Are we sticking with two releases of MediaWiki per year?)
For Wikimedia wikis, disabling Sajax and AjaxDispatcher seems to be dependent on usage. We can use mwgrep and git-grep to measure that.
MZMcBride