Last modified: 2012-11-03 09:27:43 UTC
We have been using $wgForeignFileRepos since 1.11. Reminder bug to check WMF conf to make sure it's not using the old settings, then look at removing the back-compat stuff in Setup.php and removing these. I also don't think people were using the feature very much until Tim added $wgForeignFileRepos anyway.
I see no reason to remove this deprecated feature indefinitely unless it starts to break things.
Having less configuration variables is always a good thing, imho. As long as it's clearly stated in the RELEASE-NOTES, I see little harm in removing them.
As of: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/DefaultSettings.php?view=markup&pathrev=84169#l413 The following values are still existant and set to the following by default: $wgUseSharedUploads = false; $wgSharedUploadPath = "http://commons.wikimedia.org/shared/images"; $wgFetchCommonsDescriptions = false; $wgSharedUploadDirectory = "/var/www/wiki3/images"; $wgSharedUploadDBname = false; $wgSharedUploadDBprefix = ''; $wgCacheSharedUploads = true; The default value for wgSharedUploadPath is a 404 error and doesnt' work by default. I suggest we * Set these to sane (working) defaults * Keep wgUseSharedUploads disabled by default (obviously) * Make note of these variables being obsolete in the DefaultSettings.php and RELEASE-NOTES file and shorlty describe what the new settings should be (ie. ForeignFileRepo ) so a wiki admin can switch. * Don't deprecate or remove them untill we have to for some reason (ie. it becoming impossible or cumbersome to support/convert these to new variables) -- Krinkle
Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734
