I made a breaking change last year when I moved Minerva out of MobileFrontend. I anticipated disruption so made sure it broke in an obvious way (otherwise many mobile sites would start using the Vector skin for their mobile web experience and this might be harder for sysadmins to detect) and had instructions on how to fix it. We use semvar so I bumped the version to show it was a breaking change and I updated mediawiki.org with lots of docs.
What I didn't realise is lots of 3rd parties do not check their server logs when updating and do not necessarily know what semvar means. I'm getting feedback [1] from impacted third parties that they check the release notes and the update script, but as far as I'm aware extensions and skins cannot update these in any way. Is my understanding correct? If not, is there a way we could make them do so? Either via hook or convention (e.g. identical file name in repo)? Do we have any guidelines for breaking changes in extensions and skins on mediawiki.org ? [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172640 -- Jon Robson Senior Software Engineer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
