[Mediawiki-l] Fwd: Are extensions maintained?

[Fernando Correia]

2007/2/6, Daniel Israel <dmi1 at hushmail.com>:
> I'm setting up a wiki, and there are several extensions from either
> meta or mediawiki.org that would be quite useful.  My concern is
> that if I install an extension and it breaks in some future
> mediawiki upgrade, I'm going to be stuck either re-writing 100s of
> wiki pages, or debugging the extension.
>
> In general, is there any policy for the mediawiki developers as far
> as testing that extensions continue to work?  If not, can I have
> any reasonable confidence level?  Experience, anyone?

Some extensions are no longer maintained.

I suppose you can either make do without extensions or use them and
delay a future MediaWiki upgrade until you or someone can fix an
extension that did break.