Just as a note I've made a reply to the other thread, "MobileFrontend
& John Du Hart's rewrite"

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We already have SubPageList, SubPageList2, and SubPageList3 sitting around
>> (SubPageList and SubPageList3 are in SVN, SubPageList is supposed to be the
>> one more up to date then either the 2 or 3) inside MW.org and SVN. Heck it's
>> hard to have as much of a naming mess as we've had with Dynamic Page List.
>> So I see no reason for MobileFrontend2 to be forced to be renamed.
>>
>> Can we just let John DuHart get on with writing the code so that we can have
>> a working 1:1 replacement, put it through all the testing we need to make it
>> the mobile code used on WMF's cluster, and then replace MobileFrontend/ with
>> MobileFrontend2/'s code.
>>
>
> And for ages there was confusion about which one was actually up to
> date and usable. At some point everything just said "Use SubPageList,
> it's the up to date version". Same thing with DynamicPageList. People
> expect things with what appear to be version numbers. It's unfriendly,
> at least, to name an extension to look like a newer version.
>
> Is it really too much to ask for it to be named something else?
>
> - Ryan
>
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-- 
John

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