Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-30 Thread Daniel Werner
Part of this should be a base class for extensions to use, e.g. WikiMediaExtension. Should be nice to save some code needed in all extensions and perhaps we could deprecate some globals related to extensions registration. Also, this will require some updates for the extensions development manuals o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-29 Thread Daniel Renfro
Well, I'm willing to work on an extension manager whenever it is ready to be started. Feel free to edit the RFC page, I'm trying to make it fairly comprehensive. -Daniel On Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Chad wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Daniel Friesen > mailto:li...@nadi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-29 Thread Chad
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > Speaking of Chad. He's been dying to work on his project trying to create a > configuration database for MediaWiki. He's been busy with Gerrit stuff but > hoping to work on configuration after that's done. > > I think that extension manageme

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Renfro
Thanks Dantman, (1.) I agree, maybe it's better that I don't take over an existing RFC -- it sounded like a good idea at first! (2.) A configuration database for Mediawiki would be awesome. Extension:Update is trying to do the same thing and I think the extension repository can benefit from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:33:42 -0700, Daniel Renfro wrote: To all developers: I would like to gather some feedback for an idea that has been around for a while -- implementing an extension manager for Mediawiki. The topic came up a few times recently at Wikimania 2012's "Ask the develope

[Wikitech-l] Request for comment -- Extension management

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Renfro
To all developers: I would like to gather some feedback for an idea that has been around for a while -- implementing an extension manager for Mediawiki. The topic came up a few times recently at Wikimania 2012's "Ask the developers" session and got me thinking. I've been developing with Mediaw