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In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101228#1333496, @Xqt wrote:

> I don't understand such a recommendations. We always recommended "keep your 
> bot up-to-date". And now "please dont update" ...  and wait for bugfixes, 
> translations, features until we have finished the bot in any spring; the 
> current release may be broken. But please merge to core and don't use the ... 
> I should give up.


The reason to move to a versioned system is to provide //better// long-term 
stability for bot users. Unfortunately, we're still in the process of figuring 
out how to do this exactly, so not everything will be perfect on the first 
attempt.

In the current situation, master would break every now and then, and require 
changes to bots. This was typically not planned, but it did mean that blindly 
'git pull'ing always was a bad idea. The idea for versioning is the following. 
When 2.0 is released, only bug fixes will be backported, so it's completely 
safe to update to the latest 2.0.x. More major changes would end up in 2.1, and 
really bit changes (e.g. the removal of deprecated compat wrappers) would 
become 3.0.

In this specific situation, I think it might be advisable to actually have this 
change in 2.1, not in 2.0. Then current users can switch to the 2.0 branch 
safely, and we can work on 2.1 without worrying about changes such as these.


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