'actor' is an overloaded concept in MW, and we're standardizing more on it representing the 'actor' table normalization. What Authority::getActor returns is a performer of the action, and the 'performer' noun is already widely used to represent just that.
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Related Changes in Gerrit:
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Rename Authority::getActor to Authority::getPerformer | mediawiki/core | master | +23 -23 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T218674 User::getRights() applies session rights restrictions to non-session users | |||
| Resolved | None | T180888 All permission checks should be able to return a custom error message | |||
| Open | None | T231930 Introduce Authority objects to represent the user performing a given action | |||
| Resolved | • Pchelolo | T274947 Rename Authority::getActor to Authority::getPerformer |
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Change 664672 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ppchelko; owner: Ppchelko):
[mediawiki/core@master] Rename Authority::getActor to Authority::getPerformer
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Change 664672 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Rename Authority::getActor to Authority::getPerformer