On 3 June 2014 17:01, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 05/22/2014 09:25 PM, James Forrester wrote:
Possibly, though I would suggest that it is not loaded by default. Frankly if an extension's authors have abandoned their extension to the extent that after several years' clear warning and a six month-long notice period they still didn't do a relatively trivial set of fixes, then it's reasonable to make it necessary for sysadmins to make a (small) effort acknowledging that this code is toxic and should only be used if you're willing to wade into "here be dragons" territory.
What notice period are you referring to?
I don't recall; probably the announcement at the architecture summit?
There have been a number of high-profile semi-announcements as well as comments and code reviews relating to this, most obviously this one:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064280.html%E2...
J.