See: T273220#11783110
To be clear: this is not about archiving the extension, at least not at this time. As has been noted previously, even with a lack of maintenance, the extension should still work as a basic, drop-in, anti-spam solution for various MediaWiki operators. I also personally believe that StopForumSpam data could be incorporated as an additional data set for the iPoid-Service (IPoid OpenSearch) service, if the WMF ever decides to explore that option in depth.
Undeployment checklist (per T294329#8085948):
- Remove any relevant beta cluster configuration (InitialiseSettings-labs.php, CommonSettings-labs.php)
- Remove any relevant production cluster configuration (InitialiseSettings.php, CommonSettings.php)
- Remove any database configuration (not applicable for this extension)
- Disable or clear any file system customizations or cache data, if necessary, within Wikimedia production (not applicable)
- Remove the extension from extension-list to stop rebuilding l10n on deployment
- Stop branching the extension by removing it from make-release.yaml
Project / code information
| Repository | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/StopForumSpam |
| Project page | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StopForumSpam |
| Current maintainers | Security-Team, @sbassett, @Reedy, @Legoktm |
| Recent commit activity | Almost exclusively automated maintenance: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/StopForumSpam |
| Open patches | 3 very dated patches: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/StopForumSpam+status:open |
| Number and age of open bugs | 11 in the current backlog: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/781/ |
| Dependencies | stopforumspam.org data, MediaWiki >= 1.46, ext-zlib, various composer and npm dev dependencies |