❌ Software Removal | pyllyukko/user.js #1240
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Remove
pyllyukko/user.js
from theFirefox user.js Templates
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disclosure: For those who do not know, I started and maintain the ghacks user.js. I also actively participated in the past in pyllyukko's repo. I have never actively sort ghacks-user.js promotion: and it was only recently added to PTIO, after four+ years, when someone else asked for that. This is not a competition, I always try to be subjective.end edit
🔷 foreword
GH
= ghacks user.js repoPK
= pyllyukko's user.js repoactive
= pref is not commented out,inactive
= commented out🔷 proposal
Simply put: remove PK's repo from the site.
🔷 activity analysis
Note: Don't take "same as GH" too literally
🔻 Summary
Read the proposal. PK is simply not maintained enough. See in the details, how new prefs which replace deprecated ones are not added. I know we're all human (or dwarves) and make mistakes and/or lack time, but some items are not researched enough: see super old prefs getting added, see incorrect values being set and not corrected (even when informed).
For all intents and purposes, PK is essentially abandoned: that's my view, but I'll provide some stats. This is no reflection on pyllyukko and contributors et al: we all have lives outside of the internet.
🔻 Details
the last 12 months
8 changes total: 5 active changes. And nothing for the last 6 months!
2019
2018
the last 12 months prior to that
effectively just a very small handful of useful prefs added
2018-continued
2017
🔷 preferences analysis
🔻 Summary
310
total prefs64
(20%) -> deprecated since at least ESR/FF60 (that I know about)21
-> enforcing the default value since at least ESR/FF607
-> redundant, pointless, or no threat (IMO)17
-> deprecated when ESR60 reaches EOL in approx 2 months25
-> left🔻 Conclusion
92
(30%) prefs do nothing for the end user right now109
(35%) prefs will do nothing for the end user in approx two months25
remaining prefs - debatabledetails
A: deprecated ESR/FF60 + lower [with sources]
B: deprecated ESR/FF60 + lower [no sources]
C: default value since at least FF60
D: redundant (but I do get the defense in depth argument), no threat, or pointless
E: deprecated with EOL for ESR60 [with sources]
F: left: debatable: I stopped checking
I would agree with the removal.