https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31103

--- Comment #8 from Olivier Finlay Beaton <[email protected]> 2011-09-22 
22:15:09 UTC ---
I've started
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extension_support
with the aim of eventually having a document to help extension authors be
backwards compatible.

I'm still not sure where it fits in generally from the Manual, currently
nothing links to it. I'd appreciate help in fleshing the page out and in
figuring out where it fits in.

It attempts to lay out some reasons why backwards compatability may matter from
an extension point of view, and should go a long way to help extension authors
actually do it.

I'm hoping that it could also become a "how do I get compliant with this new
version" or at least that such an effort will also be started, as what is new
is eventually old.

I do think some kind of not-too-all-or-nothing statement about why trying too
hard for backwards compat is also horrible. Sometimes you just have to move on
(the M$ lesson)

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