Max Semenik 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.
Breaking changes in the API are a Bad Thing. Sometimes Bad Things must be
done, but before doing so, I'd like to see the other options exhausted.
Has there been any discussion of the costs/benefits of versioning the API,
for example?
MZMcBride