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Undeploy the Gather extension from Wikimedia wikis
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As T127509: Uninstall the Gather extension from en.wikipedia.org was fixed, Gather is now abandoned and practically unused. To reduce maintenance costs and attack surface, as well as for transparency, it should be undeployed as soon as possible. It's pretty easy:

'wmgUseGather' => array(
	'default' => false,
	'testwiki' => true,
	'test2wiki' => true,
	'enwikivoyage' => true, // T97488
	'hewiki' => true, // T97488
),

Based on

there are only a dozen users in 2016.

Also, per T97488: Enable Gather on English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia, the installation was not asked by those wikis. So it's enough to notify the Gather users.

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SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
make-wmf-branch: Stop branching Gather (undeployed)mediawiki/tools/releasemaster+0 -1
Undeploy Gather extensionoperations/mediawiki-configmaster+0 -26
Customize query in gerrit

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Nemo_bis created this task.Mar 2 2016, 9:05 AM
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Peachey88 renamed this task from Undeploy the Gather extension to Undeploy the Gather extension from all projects.Mar 2 2016, 10:47 AM
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the installation was not asked by those wikis. So it's enough to notify the Gather users.

We should still notify the communities as a whole and allow them to comment as appropriate.

hashar mentioned this in T97488: Enable Gather on English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia.Mar 2 2016, 10:56 AM
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hashar subscribed.Mar 2 2016, 10:58 AM

Once done, one might want to change the status on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gather to abandonned/archived or whatever.

Will probably want to unconfigure the extension from CI and mark it read only in Gerrit.

Legoktm subscribed.Mar 3 2016, 1:52 AM
greg subscribed.Mar 7 2016, 4:26 PM
ori added subscribers: dr0ptp4kt, ori.Mar 15 2016, 12:12 AM

@dr0ptp4kt, I would be happy to add a note to Tech News informing users of the pending shutdown of the extension, if you like.

dr0ptp4kt added a subscriber: • JKatzWMF.Mar 15 2016, 11:26 PM

@ori, thanks for the offer. Best if @JKatzWMF speaks to current/projected state of conversations on this.

• JKatzWMF added a comment.Mar 16 2016, 12:10 AM

@ori @dr0ptp4kt thanks. I think we need to schedule this (can we squeeze it in this sprint, @dr0ptp4kt? and then I would prefer if someone technical from the reading team could add it to tech news. I can update the extension page

dr0ptp4kt added a subscriber: Tgr.Mar 16 2016, 4:07 PM

This current sprint and the list of prioritized bugs is full. Sprint 69 seems the earliest this could be done. I'll update the task.

@Tgr is there a solution for supporting users obtaining an archive of their public lists and (access controlled) private lists?

dr0ptp4kt added a project: Reading-Web-Sprint-69-K-Phab-and-the-Kurious-Koders-mmKay.Mar 16 2016, 4:07 PM
Tgr added a comment.Mar 17 2016, 12:56 PM
In T128568#2126445, @dr0ptp4kt wrote:

@Tgr is there a solution for supporting users obtaining an archive of their public lists and (access controlled) private lists?

Not yet. It's planned in T128056.

• MZMcBride subscribed.Mar 19 2016, 7:34 PM

I just filed T130470: Conduct a Gather extension postmortem, which may be of interest to people following this task.

• MZMcBride renamed this task from Undeploy the Gather extension from all projects to Undeploy the Gather extension from Wikimedia wikis.Mar 19 2016, 7:41 PM
dr0ptp4kt moved this task from Needs Analysis to Tracking on the Reading-Web-Sprint-69-K-Phab-and-the-Kurious-Koders-mmKay board.Mar 22 2016, 3:52 PM
Nemo_bis added a comment.Apr 3 2016, 10:19 AM

AFAICS, there is no need to wait a single minute more.

• JKatzWMF added a comment.Apr 4 2016, 11:31 PM

@Nemo_bis @Tgr and I are working on exporting the wikivoyage and hebrew collections first. Please bear with us.

dr0ptp4kt added a project: Reading-Web-Sprint-70-Lady-and-the-Trumps.Apr 11 2016, 5:06 PM
dr0ptp4kt moved this task from Needs Analysis to Tracking on the Reading-Web-Sprint-70-Lady-and-the-Trumps board.Apr 11 2016, 5:19 PM
Luke081515 subscribed.Apr 11 2016, 5:30 PM
• JKatzWMF added a subscriber: • Jhernandez.Apr 19 2016, 6:27 PM

@Nemo_bis this is no longer blocked from our end (as far as I know). @Jhernandez you mentioned a student was working on some Gather code--will this interfere with their work?

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• Jhernandez added a comment.Apr 20 2016, 5:44 PM

@JKatzWMF Nope, no ongoing work on Gather at all.

MBinder_WMF added a project: Web-Team-Backlog.Apr 27 2016, 4:18 PM
MBinder_WMF moved this task from Incoming to 2015-16 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Apr 27 2016, 4:48 PM
gerritbot subscribed.May 17 2016, 12:15 AM

Change 289114 had a related patch set uploaded (by Legoktm):
Undeploy Gather extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/289114

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 17 2016, 12:15 AM
Legoktm added a comment.May 17 2016, 12:16 AM
In T128568#2219332, @JKatzWMF wrote:

@Nemo_bis this is no longer blocked from our end (as far as I know).

Glad to hear that. I've submitted a patch to undeploy the extension, and will SWAT it out this week.

• JKatzWMF added a comment.May 17 2016, 4:31 PM

@Legoktm thanks!

• Jhernandez added a comment.May 17 2016, 4:38 PM

I've updated mw.org and set it to unmaintained

Legoktm added a subtask: T131063: Export path for gather on wikivoyage and hebrew wikipedia.May 17 2016, 11:37 PM
gerritbot added a comment.May 17 2016, 11:58 PM

Change 289114 merged by jenkins-bot:
Undeploy Gather extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/289114

Stashbot subscribed.May 18 2016, 12:01 AM

Mentioned in SAL [2016-05-18T00:01:14Z] <dereckson@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/: Undeploy Gather extension (T128568) (duration: 00m 33s)

gerritbot added a comment.May 18 2016, 12:04 AM

Change 289342 had a related patch set uploaded (by Legoktm):
make-wmf-branch: Stop branching Gather (undeployed)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/289342

gerritbot added a comment.May 18 2016, 12:08 AM

Change 289342 merged by jenkins-bot:
make-wmf-branch: Stop branching Gather (undeployed)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/289342

Legoktm closed this task as Resolved.May 18 2016, 12:16 AM
Legoktm claimed this task.

All done here I think.

Legoktm mentioned this in T54921: Database tables to be dropped on Wikimedia wikis and other WMF databases (tracking).Jul 5 2016, 11:09 AM
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