On 22 May 2014 18:11, Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. >
Possibly, though I would suggest that it is not loaded by default. Frankly if an extension's authors have abandoned their extension to the extent that after several years' clear warning and a six month-long notice period they still didn't do a relatively trivial set of fixes, then it's reasonable to make it necessary for sysadmins to make a (small) effort acknowledging that this code is toxic and should only be used if you're willing to wade into "here be dragons" territory. Indeed, I created this patch for this purpose, which retains jQuery.Migrate (with the intent to remove it for MediaWiki 1.25): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133719/ > (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.) > I disagree, for the reasons stated above; the inverse makes more sense. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
