Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > Because the labs environment is always changing. Moving > xTools from Precise to Trusty will break the tools. > Thankfully the rewrite coming out soon, will fix that, but > just saying.
> […] But the deprecation of Precise does not cause a tool to "suddenly break down", but simply be switched off, with about seven months of warning. The next time this will hap- pen is April 2019. So IMHO it is unnecessary to create an atmosphere where tool developers must assume that their ap- plications need constant attention. Breaking changes to the Tools environment are and should be rare as they come at the price of hundreds or thousands of man-hours. Tim _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
