2016-06-07 21:09 GMT+03:00 Krinkle <[email protected]>: > TL;DR: They've been deprecated for years, but.. No, removal has not been > scheduled and will not happen this year. >
Thanks Krinkle! I pretty much expected that such a change would have been widely publicized, but I wanted to confirm. I guess larger wikis have already moved away from them, but there are many more (very) small wikis that still use those variables in script imported long ago from Wikipedia. Strainu > > > Migration is strongly recommended. Scripts that have one or more active > maintainers should've been migrated by now. > > However, removal has not yet been scheduled to give users more time to > find, help or attract new developers to maintain affected scripts. > > Tasks: > > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35837 (disable legacy globals by > default and Wikimedia wikis) > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72470 (remove support for legacy > globals in MediaWiki general) > > It's been two years, so it's definitely time to start thinking about this. > > However, I would recommend against doing the removal this year, because > there is very little benefit to get from removing the globals at this > point. It's easy to support, removing them is disruptive, and we already > have other (more important) migrations on-going right now. > > -- Krinkle > > > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is talk in some communities about the wg-globals going away later > > this year, but I can't find anything in the tech updates or mw.org > > > > Is there any definite time-line for the removal? > > > > Thanks, > > Strainu > > -- > > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
