Thread:Extension talk:TemplateData/MediaWiki 1.22 or higher?/reply (10)

"From the very brief time I have been looking into MW software, that page appears to be a primary distribution method for extensions. It is where Manual:Extensions directs people to go to get extensions."

Indeed, and for boring extensions that haven't changed significantly in years it's fine, if a little dangerous.

"It is reasonable that the downloads are automatically created, it is not reasonable that they be misleading. In what way are they misleading?"

In-early-development code should not be branched automatically in a way that is advertised to users that the code is in a very high rate of change and is likely to break often.

"Are they not the extension as it should be used with a specific version of MW?"

No. They are the extension as it was when that specific version of MediaWiki was branched, according to a script that has no idea about the various statuses of the extensions it's branching.