On 3 June 2014 17:01, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)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
J.
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