[Engineering] Planning to de-publish old Windows 8 Wikipedia app

[Brion Vibber]

I've gone ahead and de-published it as planned; it should disappear from
the Microsoft Store on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 within 16 hours.

-- brion

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:43 AM Brion Vibber <bvibber at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> I'm planning to de-publish our old circa-2012 Windows 8 Wikipedia app
> <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wikipedia/9wzdncrfhwm4>, which was an
> experimental release that received a few bug fixes but never got assigned
> any resources for further development. Somehow we never quite made the
> decision to kill it off, so it's still in the Microsoft Store and
> installable on Windows 8.1 and 10.
>
> It's rather buggy and hasn't been updated for API and markup changes in
> the intervening years, and sometimes I get issue reports forwarded from
> Microsoft. Even if I had the bandwidth to keep up with fixes and pull out
> the old dev tools, it'd remain of limited use without a lot of work to
> rewrite it for Windows 10 and seriously maintain it.
>
> If there are no objections, I'm going to de-publish the app in
> mid-February. If anybody's interested in taking over the Wikimedia
> Microsoft app publishing account in case we ever want to put something in
> there in future (maybe just a web app entry), let me know and we'll figure
> out how to transfer ownership.
>
> -- brion
>
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