Thread:Talk:MediaWiki 1.23/Manual:Skin autodiscovery/reply (7)

It is, and no one is happy with the current state – but my project (I'm the driving force behind these changes, with support of several other people; see the project page at Separating skins from core MediaWiki) was always intended to be finished in July/August (in time for 1.24 release) and couldn't possibly be finished now. I have several related code changes pending review right now.

However, I felt it was worthwhile to backport just the deprecation warnings to 1.23 because it is an LTS release, as otherwise LTS users could be somewhat surprised if their skins suddenly disappeared on next upgrade – Mark and Markus agreed and helped me push it through just in time.

1.23 is not released yet, and we can always make amendments in point releases – do you have any suggestions on how this could be handled better?