On 31/08/2020 18:58, Bill Pirkle wrote: > A clear and straightforward policy for getting things "in" sounds great. > However, this might encourage the addition of extensions that are > ultimately abandoned and which themselves become a code maintenance burden. > We should also consider our policy for getting things "out". This is often > a more difficult issue.
Hello, Abandoned extensions are definitely a burden. The good news is that we do archive them eventually. The bulk of the work is done via the #cleanup project in Phabricator. Several people take care of investigating public usage, interest by past author or maybe they got superseeded by another extension. The bulk of the work is done in Phabricator under #cleanup https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/projects-cleanup/ (the 'Fill an archive request' prepopulate the task form with a check list of actions to complete in order to have a repository fully archived). -- Antoine "hashar" Musso _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
