Removed unavailable submodules

[alex-mashin]

Removed unavailable and no longer needed submodules CockBlock, MABS, Pickle and SemanticCompundQueries.

Fixes #259.

[A-smart-kitten]

Out of interest, how come the three submodules besides CockLock were removed? AFAICS, they're still available at https://github.com/MWStake/MABS, https://github.com/jeblad/Pickle & https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticCompoundQueries. (Apologies if I'm missing something here!)

[alex-mashin]

They are non cloneanle as submodules themselves or have uncloneable submodules. Once this is corrected, the extensions can be returned. -- Отправлено из Mail для Android понедельник, 10 ноября 2025г., 16:07 +07:00 от A-smart-kitten ***@***.*** :

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[alex-mashin]

And Pickle has been confirmed as discontinued. -- Отправлено из Mail для Android понедельник, 10 ноября 2025г., 16:07 +07:00 от A-smart-kitten ***@***.*** :

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[A-smart-kitten]

They are non cloneanle as submodules themselves or have uncloneable submodules. Once this is corrected, the extensions can be returned.

I'll try and look into this more fully later on; but at first glance, I don't know if this (ie., having unclonable submodules) should be a reason to remove extensions from this repo (which e.g. is used as an input to Codesearch; which IIUC is often used as part of the MediaWiki deprecation process). But maybe @hexmode can speak to that.

And Pickle has been confirmed as discontinued.

Huh, has it?[/genq] It's still receiving translation updates.
Also, for what it's worth, my understanding based on the discussion in #73 was that extension archival (and so I guess also discontinuance?) isn't necessarily a reason for removal in itself. (Although, granted, that does seem to differ from the policy used in the sister repo MWStake/nonwmf-skins.)

[alex-mashin]

And Pickle has been confirmed as discontinued.
Huh, has it?[/genq] It's still receiving translation updates.

jeblad/Pickle#72

Also, for what it's worth, my understanding based on the discussion in #73 was that extension archival (and so I guess also discontinuance?) isn't necessarily a reason for removal in itself.

The reason for removal was that recursive cloning this whole repository was aborted due to a broken dependency in Pickle; and no-one is going to fix it.

It's likely to be related to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409519.

[alex-mashin]

If SemanticCompundQueries has been fixed by SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticCompoundQueries#85; we could return it to the repository (it needs to be checked).

[A-smart-kitten]

And Pickle has been confirmed as discontinued.

Huh, has it?[/genq] It's still receiving translation updates.

jeblad/Pickle#72

Thanks for the link & the info!

If SemanticCompundQueries has been fixed by SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticCompoundQueries#85; we could return it to the repository (it needs to be checked).

Running git clone https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticCompoundQueries.git & git submodule update --init --recursive locally, it seems like it's working for me now :)

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Re MABS, it looks like the submodule cloning error originates from https://github.com/MWStake/Git-Mediawiki/blob/3cf82953b4a3cbf997da55f82c27e8282a108ae6/.gitmodules#L3. If that's resolved (e.g. by changing git:// to https://), hopefully things should be okay with that repo!