mediawiki.user: Deprecate #bucket

Rationale:
- On the Wikimedia cluster, it is only used by AFT, which is moribund.
- It's too complicated for what it is.
- Its usage leads to a proliferation of large, persistent cookies that
  degrade site performance.
- If it were rewritten to be simpler, more generic, and cookie-free,
  it would still be an odd fit for the user module.

Change-Id: I5a66e1a4fb60f6c67d1fb5312ccb629bb7964053

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
index 4350b2d..382b54f 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ changes to languages because of Bugzilla reports.
   object expects this column to exist. Use update.php to create this new field.
 * The jquery.delayedBind ResourceLoader module was deprecated in favor of the
   jquery.throttle-debounce module. It will be removed in MediaWiki 1.24.
+* mw.user.bucket has been deprecated.
 
 ==== Removed classes ====
 * FakeMemCachedClient (deprecated in 1.18)

diff --git a/resources/mediawiki/mediawiki.user.js b/resources/mediawiki/mediawiki.user.js
index 78febd2..8344111 100644 (file)
--- a/resources/mediawiki/mediawiki.user.js
+++ b/resources/mediawiki/mediawiki.user.js
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@
                 *         expires: 7
                 *     } );
                 *
+                * @deprecated since 1.23
                 * @param {string} key Name of bucket
                 * @param {Object} options Bucket configuration options
                 * @param {Object} options.buckets List of bucket-name/relative-probability pairs (required,