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We've pretty clearly established that this isn't going to be an all-at-once task. Removing milestone to just let it be what the labels already say it is: A long-term planning/tracking...
Let's not do this until #1691 gets solved. Any auto-save function would clobber config file comments silently (until the user opens the file and notices, of course).
Punted, per IRC. This will allow time for Exirel to develop a better solution, without starting with a kludge first.
Let's revisit this after we drop old Python crap for 8.0. If enough EOL Python versions go away, this might be simpler.
Here again from the future, musing that #1695 is kind of related.
Going along with the other plugin-related wishlist stuff. Not sure when this might get worked on, but it remains a wishlist item and I would like to look at it...
I don't like the precedent this would set. Today it's `url`'s title fetch, tomorrow it'll be `youtube` comments or `twitter` tweets. There are simply _too many_ Sopel functions (built-in or...
As soon as I saw this issue come up on IRC, I knew it would be down to how `parse_version` works with `dev` versions. _Always_ unconditionally raising all deprecation warnings...
We were talking a while back about changing `@deprecated` to use `warnings.warn()` instead of the current `logger.warning()`. Do you remember why that idea got dropped? Maybe something about its interaction...
This makes perfect sense, and I'm surprised none of us thought about the potential issues in #1446 or follow-ups. Since there's no mechanism yet for DB schema migrations, how do...