Correction: that's the deployment on February 7–9. I looked at the wrong
page of my calendar.

Sorry for the noise.

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> After reviewing usage of this deprecated feature, I've directly notified
> the few remaining major users on their talk pages and plan to change the
> deprecation to an error in time for the deployment on February 3–5, 2017.
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> To operate correctly, action=purge needs to write to the database, which
>> means it should be done using a POST rather than a GET request.
>>
>> As of Gerrit change 310560,[1] action=purge will begin emitting a warning
>> when used via GET. This should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.28.0-wmf.20,
>> see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap for the
>> schedule.
>>
>> Clients that use action=paraminfo to determine whether to use GET or POST
>> for an action should automatically switch to POST; any others should
>> manually switch to using POST for this action as soon as possible.
>>
>> To check if your client's user agent is detected making such submissions,
>> you can also use ApiFeatureUsage[2] and look for 'purge-via-GET' once
>> 1.28.0-wmf.20 is rolled out to wikis your client is using.
>>
>> It is planned that this warning will be changed to an error during 1.29.
>> Let's avoid having a repeat of T142155,[3] update your code ASAP instead of
>> waiting until it breaks. Thanks.
>>
>>  [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/310560/
>>  [2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage
>>  [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142155
>>
>> --
>> Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
> Senior Software Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
>



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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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