Hello,
This email is to inform you of a small backwards-incompatible change to LinksUpdate class in MediaWiki core.
LinksUpdate::getTriggeringUser method will start returning an instance of UserIdentity instead of a User object
as of [1]. All 2 known usages of this method are satisfied with UserIdentity interface, and going through a full
deprecation process here would require renaming the method and will just cause more pain to extension
developers.
Best regards.
Petr Pchelko
Staff Software Engineer
Platform Engineering at WMF
1.https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/698820 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/698820>
This email is to inform you of a small backwards-incompatible change to LinksUpdate class in MediaWiki core.
LinksUpdate::getTriggeringUser method will start returning an instance of UserIdentity instead of a User object
as of [1]. All 2 known usages of this method are satisfied with UserIdentity interface, and going through a full
deprecation process here would require renaming the method and will just cause more pain to extension
developers.
Best regards.
Petr Pchelko
Staff Software Engineer
Platform Engineering at WMF
1.https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/698820 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/698820>