Hi all!

At the ArchCom RFC meeting on Wednesday [E412], we will talk about defining an official deprecation policy [T146965][DP].

I think it would be quite useful to discuss the different modes and methods of deprecation we have, and what they mean for MediaWiki core, and for extension developers.

To me, one of the interesting questions is what happens if a deprecated function is still used in an extension that is not actively maintained. We can provide a patch - but who can review it? And if nobody reviews it, can we still remove the deprecated method?

The meeting will be at the usual time (Wednesday 21 UTC, 14 PDT, 23 CET) and place (#wikimedia-office). For an overview of ArchCom activity, see [ArchComStatus].

-- Daniel

[E412]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E412 [T146965]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146965 [DP]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Deprecation_policy [ArchComStatus]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus