Deprecate `wgSysopEmailBans`
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$wgSysopEmailBans should be deprecated and removed:

Its name is misleading; it must be true for any user to be able to ban a user from using their email
Finer control is available via $user->isAllowed( 'blockemail' ) - for all user groups to be prohibited from banning emails, just set $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['blockemail'] = false; - as of now, sysop is the only group given this rights in DefaultSettings.php

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Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
mediawiki/core	master	+1 -0	Hard deprecate `$wgSysopEmailBans`
mediawiki/core	REL1_34	+1 -0	Hard deprecate `$wgSysopEmailBans`
mediawiki/core	master	+14 -4	Deprecate `$wgSysopEmailBans`

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Status	Assigned	Task
Duplicate	None	T30530 Implementation of selective user block by namespaces for the Portuguese Wikipedia
Open	None	T17821 Allow specific users to edit otherwise blocked articles
Open	None	T27400 Software should allow admins to give specific users permission to edit specific pages through blocks (whitelist)
Duplicate	None	T24316 Separate upload protection from edit protection
Duplicate	None	T16636 Blocking/Permissions Rewrite
Open	None	T11968 Reduce use of global and public variables
Resolved	DannyS712	T20807 Phase out right-related globals
Resolved	DannyS712	T232169 Deprecate `wgSysopEmailBans`

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DannyS712 created this task.Sep 5 2019, 10:56 PM

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Change 534701 had a related patch set uploaded (by DannyS712; owner: DannyS712):
[mediawiki/core@master] Deprecate $wgSysopEmailBans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/534701

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 5 2019, 10:57 PM

DannyS712 moved this task from Unsorted to In progress on the User-DannyS712 board.Sep 5 2019, 11:03 PM

DannyS712 edited projects, added Technical-Debt (Deprecation process); removed Technical-Debt.

DannyS712 renamed this task from Deprecate and remove `wgSysopEmailBans` to Deprecate `wgSysopEmailBans`.Sep 5 2019, 11:05 PM

Mainframe98 added a parent task: T20807: Phase out right-related globals.Sep 6 2019, 6:39 AM

Hopefully this will be merged into 1.34 before the version is cut, and then it can be hard deprecated (i.e. removed) in a month

DannyS712 moved this task from Backlog to User list on the MediaWiki-User-management board.Sep 6 2019, 7:05 AM

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Change 534701 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Deprecate $wgSysopEmailBans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/534701

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.23; 2019-09-17).Sep 17 2019, 9:00 AM

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DannyS712 closed this task as Resolved.Sep 17 2019, 3:11 PM

DannyS712 moved this task from Awaiting review and deployment to Merged on the User-DannyS712 board.Sep 24 2019, 5:37 AM

Change 547694 had a related patch set uploaded (by DannyS712; owner: DannyS712):
[mediawiki/core@master] Hard deprecate $wgSysopEmailBans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/547694

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 1 2019, 1:39 AM

Change 547695 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: DannyS712):
[mediawiki/core@master] Hard deprecate $wgSysopEmailBans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/547695

Change 547695 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Hard deprecate $wgSysopEmailBans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/547695

Change 547694 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_34] Hard deprecate $wgSysopEmailBans

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/547694

DannyS712 removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 1 2019, 2:20 AM

ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.5; 2019-11-05), MW-1.34-notes; removed MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.23; 2019-09-17).Nov 1 2019, 5:01 PM

DannyS712 moved this task from Merged to Resolved (deprecation) on the User-DannyS712 board.Jan 13 2020, 1:01 AM

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