Thread:Talk:MediaWiki 1.23/Manual:Skin autodiscovery/reply (10)

Reading your project pages I get the point. Nice idea behind it all! :-)

The problem I have with what currently is in the 1.23 branch is that Core skins and custom skins are treated differently in a way that authors/admins are first bothered with a problem and then when you check how the MediaWiki Core itself does it - which if not that should be the right way to do things? - then you see that the Core does exactly the same without being yelled at.

You obviously don't want to deprecate autodiscovery for the core skins (otherwise you would not need the exception in the diff I linked to). For me it would already be OK, if just the Core skins would no longer use autodiscovery. Then you can go to the skin authors and tell them to adjust, but with the current state telling them to change while MediaWiki itself did not, it's just pointless.