On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
We plan to remove the aforementioned formats as soon as MediaWiki 1.19 is branched so that these changes will take effect in 1.20, but would like to hear from you first if there are good reasons why we shouldn't do it or postpone it. Please have your say.
For a stable API, that's far too fast of a deprecation path. We don't even remove core functions that fast (or shouldn't). I'd suggest throwing some kinds of warnings in the output for at least one release (1.20) and then target them for removal in 1.21.
-Chad