Re: Removal of $wgUseCategoryBrowser configuration flag
Andre Klapper <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2022-01-06 at 11:26 -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > Does the extension to provide equivalent capability exist yet? Does > the MW team plan to write one? If not, why not wait until the > extension is written and the option to use it is available before > deprecating the function provided by $wgUseCategoryBrowser ? Spending time to implement stuff that nobody may ever need or use is not a good use of time. That's the reason for the public call to please provide specific use cases. Waiting (and not removing cruft) leads to a code base becoming less and less maintainable and more buggy. Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-l.lists.wikimedia.org/