On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Steinsplitter Wiki < [email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't followed this discussion, however i am wondering why api is not > keep backward compatible. This will break a lot of stuff and i am wondering > why we need such changes in the [API] > We usually do. In this case, however, the advantages of changing the default for new API users seems to outweigh the disadvantages of a well-announced breaking change with a simple parameter to request backwards-compatible output. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
