On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:51 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 February 2013 14:44, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/02/13 23:58, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
That is, I think it is safe to say LQT will remain usable in its current state on any coming MW versions for the foreseeable future. Right now, though, all I'm looking for is a confirmation that it will remain usable. I imagine one of the first things that we would need to do is include it in some testing plans.
It is used by some of WMF wikis, so it has to remain usable not to broke them.
Although I don't expect it - is anyone maintaining it against 1.19 LTS?
If it isn't being maintained against 1.19, then is there an exit strategy? Is there a way to remove LQT while preserving the content usably?
I'm not sure what kind of exit strategy you'd need.
If you're using MediaWiki 1.19, you install the REL1_19 version the extension, right?
Just because MediaWiki marked version 1.19 "LTS", doesn't mean every extension author has to support 1.19 on the latest version of their extension. Extensions and their authors have always been independent.
Extensions that are actively maintained by people who stay up to date with announcements (should include authors involved with the Wikimedia Foundation) may decide to support 1.19 and/or maintain a REL branch, but that's at their own discretion.
There's lots of extensions that implement new features that are only for 1.20 or 1.21 and will likely break horribly on 1.19 or earlier.
As crazy as that may sound, and I don't necessarily agree with this practice, It's how it's always been. We've been doing mass updates to all extensions for breaking changes in core from time to time, we have to in order to support the latest stable version.
If you're using MediaWiki 1.19, you install the REL1_19 version the extension.
Unless the extension documentation explicitly says it supports an old version, installing a newer version of an extension on an older version of MediaWiki is at your own risk.
This is the reason we branch extensions after every release and provide them as options in the extension distributor.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/LiquidThreads
-- Krinkle