confusing get_post_stati and get_post_statuses functions

[thomask]

maybe it is because i am not english, but i do not understand why we have 2 functions that seem to return very similar info
​https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_stati/
​https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_statuses/

imo get_post_stati fails the rule about descriptive function name

BTW imo all that statuses part should be rewritten for 6.4 and for the workflows to work
It is not possible now to simply register a new status as it does nothing to the UI (#55895), there are functions like get_page_statuses and get_post_statuses without some universal function for any post type etc.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Thanks for the ticket! Related/duplicate: #58134.

[jorbin]

Related: #9674

It's too late to change the name of a function that was introduced in WP 3.0 (Also, updating the version to that).

While the names are similar, these two functions do different things. I think this should be closed as wontfix. As future changes happen to post statuses, likely in Gutenberg phase 3, naming should be considered but changing a name now would break many sites.

[jorbin]

Changing the name for something added 30+ major versions ago isn't feasible, so closing as wontfix