On 8/26/15, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
This seems kind of backwards. A bunch of changes were made, things exploded, and now Community tech is going to try to desperately fix them. Maybe this is a sign we need to re-evaluate how we do client-side deprecations. -- -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
