Reedy added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114538#1705551, @TFlanagan-WMF wrote:
> Jumping in for the education team. We have many programs that are dependent > on the education program extension (however flawed it may be) on over a dozen > Wikimedia projects, so I would ask that nothing be removed that would cause > the extension to fail. It is unclear what is proposed since I don't have a > strong technical background. Could someone explain in plain English what is > proposed and how it would impact our extension, as well as the urgency for > making any changes? > > As mentioned in other comments here and elsewhere, there is a hope for > something newer and better than the current > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-educationprogram/, > but that is at least a year off AFAIK. We have no engineering resources to > even begin building something or adapting the WikiEd Foundation's dashboard > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/education-program-dashboard/> for our > global stakeholders. > > Copying my colleagues to this thread who may have more context. We're not going to break anything (not purposely anyway). There will be a few minor changes in the Education Program extension, but we will make sure it keeps working. We're just moving an amount of code from core MediaWiki and putting it elsewhere. FYI, we have been doing these sorts of changes to MediaWiki for a while, moving out "reuseable" code etc TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114538 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Reedy Cc: AKoval_WMF, FloorKoudijs, TFlanagan-WMF, hoo, aude, MZMcBride, JeroenDeDauw, Aklapper, Reedy, Wikidata-bugs, AndyRussG, Ragesoss, Legoktm _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
