On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> Welcome, CT! > > Romaine Wiki wrote: > >> Another subject that recently came up is the subject of continuity. One >> of the largest announces I notice is that users see that software is no >> longer maintained, but still like to use it, are getting very annoyed. >> This is not an issue that is incidental, it is a structural problem. >> > > +1 I think orphaned gadgets maintenance will/should be an important task > for this team. There many gadgets created a long time ago, that were > maintained and improved for years but now are orphaned with lots of editors > still using them. Editors that are unhappy each time they break (api > changes, document.write bans, sajax being gone, and most recently that they > must use ResourceLoader to continue working…). > We're actually collecting reports of broken gadgets on Phabricator currently and trying to fix them as we have time: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108282. Normally we will only be working on tasks that are submitted through some sort of formal process (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team#Work_input_and_prioritization_process), as we don't have the capacity to field random requests from all the communities. The huge number of gadgets that have broken recently (due to various core MediaWiki changes) is something of a crisis though and we want to help get them back up and running. TheDJ (who is not on our team) has also been helping with gadget fixes. There are a lot of gadgets out there, so any additional help (or bug reports) are welcome.
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