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[Tracking] MediaWiki Config Cleanup
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This task is going to be tracking config cleanup tasks. Several cases below:

  • Sometimes, we deprecate and remove configs in the MediaWiki software and even extensions/skins but we forget to cleanup production (operations-mediawiki-config repo) to remove these unused configs.
  • In some cases, we introduce configs as experiments or migration paths or feature flags (which are temporary) but end up not cleaning up and these ripple through multiple releases.
  • In other cases, we introduce configs and actually never used but forget to remove.

On this task is a slow but consistent effort (during my free time) to verify and cleanup configs that are no longer used anywhere in our systems.

NOTE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+/0812f86482d453e452915e4425437d23fa27eb66/wmf-config/CommonSettings.php

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 InvalidNoneT358420 [Tracking] MediaWiki Config Cleanup
 DeclinedNoneT358422 Verify that wgConfigRegistry is unused and do cleanups

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• DAlangi_WMF created this task.Feb 24 2024, 10:14 AM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 24 2024, 10:14 AM
• DAlangi_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 24 2024, 10:17 AM
• DAlangi_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 24 2024, 10:24 AM
• DAlangi_WMF closed subtask T358422: Verify that wgConfigRegistry is unused and do cleanups as Declined.Feb 24 2024, 10:53 AM
Aklapper added a comment.Mar 18 2024, 1:12 PM

@DAlangi_WMF Will there realistically be a date when this very task can be closed as resolved? Or is this instead a neverending and basically tasks both in MediaWiki-Configuration and Technical-Debt ?

Aklapper added a comment.Mar 30 2024, 9:33 AM

@DAlangi_WMF: Could you please answer the last comment? Thanks in advance!

• DAlangi_WMF added a project: Technical-Debt.Apr 8 2024, 9:39 AM

@Aklapper, thanks for writting, sorry for the delay in response, I was OoO. This is a tracking tasks for me (little side project) to cleanup our config file(s) - InitialiseSettings(-labs).php, CommonSettings(-labs).php etc from configs that are no longer used by our infrastructure. So TBH, there is no date for this to be done, it's something I'll be doing from time to time and like you rightly put it, it's a tech debt payment task.

I've updated the tags accordingly. Thank you and please let me know if I wasn't clear enough. :)

Aklapper assigned this task to • DAlangi_WMF.Apr 8 2024, 11:35 AM
Pppery edited projects, added: Wikimedia-Site-requests; removed: MediaWiki-Configuration.Nov 7 2025, 9:25 PM
Aklapper removed • DAlangi_WMF as the assignee of this task.Sun, May 17, 6:22 PM

Unassigning inactive task assignee (please do so as part of offboarding)

Pppery closed this task as Invalid.Mon, May 18, 5:59 AM
Pppery subscribed.

Tracking task with no subtasks by inactive user. Let's close this.

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