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).
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Antoine "hashar" Musso