Deprecate (hopefully) the CustomData extension
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MediaWiki-extensions-CustomData is superseded by ParserOutput#setExtensionData and #getExtensionData so it should be deprecated.

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The RelatedArticles extension is updated to use the new-ish ParserOutput methods
~~Update the RelatedArticles extension page to reflect that the extension no longer requires the CustomData extension~~ T115019
Email wikitech-l to see which other extensions rely on the CustomData extension and need to be updated

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Remove CustomData dependency	mediawiki/extensions/RelatedArticles	master	+49 -67

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T106123 Extensions needing to be removed from Wikimedia wikis
Resolved	Jdforrester-WMF	T140847 De-deploy CustomData extension from WMF production
Resolved	Jdlrobson	T94906 [EPIC] Read more related articles after end of current article
Resolved	• bmansurov	T114303 Add EventLogging to read more
Resolved	phuedx	T113635 Implement first version of read more
Duplicate	None	T113768 Finalise RelatedArticles design
Resolved	• bmansurov	T114393 "Cards" extension should be able to render uniform cards in mobile skin
Invalid	None	T115003 create a gerrit repo for the Cards extension
Resolved	Jdlrobson	T114915 Deprecate (hopefully) the CustomData extension
Resolved	Legoktm	T115124 Remove CustomData extension dependency from GeoCrumbs
Resolved	Legoktm	T115125 Remove CustomData extension dependency from Insider
Resolved	Legoktm	T115126 Remove CustomData extension dependency from RelatedSites
Resolved	Jdlrobson	T113670 Spike (2 hours): How do we measure the success of read more?
Resolved	• bmansurov	T117140 Upstream Schema.js from MobileFrontend to EventLogging

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phuedx created this task.Oct 7 2015, 5:30 PM

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Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs Analysis to Doing on the Reading-Web-Sprint-57-The Fifth Element board.Oct 7 2015, 11:00 PM

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Jdlrobson claimed this task.Oct 8 2015, 12:22 AM

Change 244379 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson):
Remove CustomData dependency

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/244379

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 8 2015, 12:31 AM

I've started a discussion about sunsetting it
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sqcxzoee4lz8wxc3

Jdlrobson moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Reading-Web-Sprint-57-The Fifth Element board.Oct 8 2015, 12:35 AM

phuedx updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 8 2015, 9:10 AM

phuedx moved this task from Code Review to -1 (Needs More Work) on the Reading-Web-Sprint-57-The Fifth Element board.

Jdlrobson moved this task from -1 (Needs More Work) to Code Review on the Reading-Web-Sprint-57-The Fifth Element board.Oct 8 2015, 4:14 PM

I've sent a mail about sunsetting it.
I realised that we actually need to keep the dependency for 30 days so I think updating the MediaWiki page will have to wait. Have created T115019 to capture that.
@phuedx do you want to remove that acceptance criteria?