On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A rough timeline: > > * 12 May 2014 (1.24wmf4 [9]): Phase 1 – Instrumentation and logging > starts. This > will run for 4 weeks (until June 9). > > * 19 May 2014 (1.24wmf5): Phase 2 – "Upgrade and Migrate". This will run > for 3 > weeks (upto June 9). The instrumentation continues during this period. > > * 1 June 2014 (1.24wmf7) Finalise upgrade. > > (...) Q: When will the upgrade happen? > > A: In the next few weeks, once we are happy that the impact is reasonably > low. > An update will be sent to wikitech-l just before this is done as a final > reminder. > This will be well before the MediaWiki 1.24 branch point for extension > authors > looking to maintain compatibility. > I'm not sure this decision makes sense. This would mean that 1.23 shipped with jQuery 1.8 and 1.24 will ship with jQuery 1.11, without the backwards compatibility plugin. I don't see how this helps extension authors, and it will be a nuisance for wiki webmasters who will have to deal with the breakage of all the not-so-well maintained extensions, without any transition period where they could identify and fix/replace them, when they do the 1.23 -> 1.24 upgrade. There should be a major version which includes the migration plugin. (This is a separate matter from whn the migration plugin should be removed from WMF-maintained sites. It adds to the JS overhead, even if just a little, and it might make sense to put jQuery Migrate behind a config switch which is enabled by default but disabled on Wikimedia sites after June 1. But the next tarball should contain the migration plugin and enable it by default.) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
