[Bug 33220] Provide a means to show gadgets on non-Gadget parts of Preferences
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33220 Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC||krinklem...@gmail.com Resolution||WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com 2012-01-02 15:50:51 UTC --- Marking WONTFIX per concerns raised by Rainer in comment #1. Gadgets are created by the community. Although great things have been created through that system, they are still not as safe or stable as native functionality that has been through extensive cross-browser testing, code review and security checks. And as such they should not be promoted mixed without the ability to distinguish them. The Gadgets extension already has the feature of categories, so one can have a category Edit gadgets (instead of adding it to the native Editing tab. If something created as a gadget turns out to be suited as something that would belong in another tab and is stable enough to be as such, then I think the proper procedure is to have it be part of core MediaWiki or an extension. - in order words, request the feature in BugZilla and link to the gadget resources as patch. Gadgets are kind of a labs environment, once it's grown stable and useful enough for general MediaWiki use (not just Wikimedia wikis), then they are probably suited to become part of core. For example, ajax watching has been in core for a while now. If I recall correctly that once was a gadget. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 33220] Provide a means to show gadgets on non-Gadget parts of Preferences
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33220 Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org changed: What|Removed |Added Priority|Unprioritized |Normal Severity|normal |enhancement -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 33220] Provide a means to show gadgets on non-Gadget parts of Preferences
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33220 rai...@rillke.eu rainerril...@hotmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC||rainerril...@hotmail.com --- Comment #1 from rai...@rillke.eu rainerril...@hotmail.com 2011-12-17 18:13:51 UTC --- This is bad and evil because gadgets writer are often less experienced as the MediaWiki-Developers are. Furthermore the code is often not double-checked like the MediaWiki-one. Moving the gadgets to another tab could raise the impression that activating is save. But often Gadgets suffer from substantial security vulnerability, so fooling the user. But why we have Gadgets? Simple answer: Because MediaWiki is insufficient for lots of cases. Irony? Evaluate yourself. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
