Communicate intention to remove IE11 from basic support
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	Mar 21 2023, 3:17 PM

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Background

As part of T288287, we should provide clear/simple messaging around the following (to include copy from the proposal) (alternative PDF):

What's changing?
When is it changing?
How does this impact my current features in production?
What do I need to do?
Who can I contact if I have questions?

Goal

After internal discussion and reaching out to a number of stakeholders, we've come to an agreement, that we want to make a broader update to the support matrix. This document captures overarching changes we gonna make to our browser support policy.

Pull communication channels:

Acceptance criteria for Done

Message copy is drafted/reviewed/finalized
Communication channels are confirmed
"Senders" are identified (i.e., who is the best messenger for this change?)
- @CCiufo-WMF for WMF internal, @Volker_E for external
Message is sent to
- Foundation Slack channels: #front-end, #product-tech-dept
- wikitech-l
- ~~Tech/News~~ (will be done after the changes are actually made)
- ~~Technical Community Newsletter~~ (will be done after the changes are actually made)

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Other Assignee: Volker_E

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Open	Volker_E	T288287 Remove IE11 from Basic support ("Grade C")
Resolved	CCiufo-WMF	T332716 Communicate intention to remove IE11 from basic support

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ldelench_wmf created this task.Mar 21 2023, 3:17 PM

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CCiufo-WMF mentioned this in T178356: Raise Grade A JavaScript requirement from ES5 (2009) to ES6 (2015).Mar 24 2023, 9:33 PM

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CCiufo-WMF renamed this task from [SPIKE] Develop communication plan for removing IE11 from basic support to Communication intention to remove IE11 from basic support.Feb 20 2024, 6:40 PM

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We are still waiting to get an updated Superset dashboard for IE11 traffic analysis.

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CCiufo-WMF renamed this task from Communication intention to remove IE11 from basic support to Communicate intention to remove IE11 from basic support.Mar 15 2024, 10:24 PM

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I've drafted two different browser support related documents (internal to WMF for now): one that captures overarching changes we can make to our browser support policy, including aligning Grade A support with Baseline, and one focused more explicitly on Grade C, with dropping/bumping browser versions in support of upcoming features like night mode.

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