On 4 April 2012 10:19, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am very disappointed by current development process we have on > wikimedia project. The wikimedia project itself is classified as open > source at some point, but the current development process sort of > beats the purpose of that. > > I started working on two extensions in October, more than 6 months > ago. Both were approved by community on Village Pump and it was agreed > to deploy them to english wikipedia. One of the extension had hundreds > of lines and is considered as "bigger", the other one consist of +- 15 > lines of code, which was developed together with Ian Baker who is > employee of the wikimedia foundation. I was told that in order to > deploy it, I need to pass code review. I requested code review many > times on many places and although it was more than 6 months ago, no > one seemed to be able to review these 15 lines of code so far, despite > the community agreed with the idea of extension. > > I understand it, that only employees of the foundation are actually > permitted to write the code which is going to be deployed to wmf > sites. If that is true, it should be noted somewhere, so that > volunteers (the people who aren't employees / paid for that) can know > that spending time on creating such an extensions, will likely result > in it never going to be implemented, thus it's not anything they are > suggested to do. > > While this is secure for the foundation, so that it can actually have > perfect control over the code which is wikimedia running on, it is > sort of against the idea of open software. > > So, it should be either described how this works, because if what I > just said is true (I hope it's not) it should be definitely somewhere > noted, to avoid getting more volunteers spending time on pointless > work, or the development process should be completely changed so that > it allows this "open source" project, to be actually open.
My NaturalLanguageList extension[1] has been queued for code review since March 2010.[2] And I still believe WMF wikis like Wiktionary and Commons would greatly benefit from such an extension. At least until the Lua-wikicode thing gets worked out. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NaturalLanguageList [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22928 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
