On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)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