Sounds like a plan. Be my guest.

--- On Thu, 7/23/09, William Allen Simpson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> From: William Allen Simpson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Do no harm
> To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 10:21 AM
> Here's what I do in similar
> circumstances.  Create another variable,
> $wgScriptPathEscaped.  Then, gradually make the
> changes.  Wait for tests.
> Change some more.  Eventually, most of the old ones
> will be gone.
> 
> By inspection, many of the uses will be terminal, not
> passed to other
> routines, with no side effects.  Those should be done
> first.
> 
> Sure, it might take a month or three.  But wishing for
> some universal
> regression suite is going to be about the same as waiting
> for the
> single pass parser.
> 
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