When you say "extensive consultation" are you referring to the UI or to which preferences could be made global? I think we talked about this on IRC too but I don't quite remember.
I'd also appreciate if you could point me where I could start "diving in", so I can get a sense of how things were done. Thanks again. 2012/2/15 Andrew Garrett <agarr...@wikimedia.org> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Jeremias Nunez <jeremias...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > Reading around MW and looking into some ideas for GSoC I ran into this > > bug, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14950, which I > > noticed (correct me if i'm wrong) isn't currently being worked on, and as > > Roan Kattouw said on one of the last comments, hasn't ever been written > yet > > (i know it's kind of old, but anyway). > > > > I wanted to get some feedback on the next couple of things: > > > > 1 - Is this a feature that could actually be needed/helpful/useful? > > 2 - Is it true that it's currently not being worked on? > > 3 - Would it be too big of a project for a single person to take on? > > (given the amount of time to actually implement it for GSoC) > > > > We discussed this on IRC. A quick recap: > > I tried to implement this when I completely refactored the preferences > system in 2009. It was eventually reverted in > r49932<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/49932>. > The main blocker was basically considering a way to decide *which* > preferences would have their values synchronised. A UI would need to be > developed for that and you'd need some extensive consultation on that fact. > > If you were to implement this, you could potentially use my original > implementation as a guide, though it is reasonably "in the guts" of > MediaWiki so you'd have to be reasonably confident "code diving" into > unfamiliar software packages. > > I'll defer to Sumana on whether or not the project is of an appropriate > size for GSoC. > > —Andrew > > -- > Andrew Garrett > Wikimedia Foundation > agarr...@wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
