Wikimedia

wfWaitForSlaves is deprecated, replace usages #1

wfWaitForSlaves has been deprecated since MediaWiki version 1.27 with a suggestion to use LBFactory::waitForReplication instead.

Usages in MediaWiki maintenance scripts and extensions should be replaced

There's about 160 odd usages in WMF extensions and the maintenance folder of MW core.

You should find at least 5 usages of wfWaitForSlaves() in the MediaWiki core codebase (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/mediawiki/core) and replace it with the suggested replacement.

You are expected to provide a patch in Wikimedia Gerrit. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial for how to set up Git and Gerrit.

Task tags

  • deprecation
  • php
  • cleanup
  • tech-debt

Students who completed this task

Haikal Izzuddin, Ryan Chang

Task type

  • code Code
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2017