Guys - thank you so much for the comments, I really appreciate it! The future goal for this could very well be something that helps people upgrade their extensions (as similar as possible to something like wordpress, which is very newbie-friendly) and download the files directly with or without git available.
I think the biggest challenge is the target audience here. I wanted to try and make sure this extension works well for newbies who need upgrade but *also* to experienced users that might need to pull from the repositories. Also, I'm a windows user (I do all the gerrit stuff from a VM) so I aimed towards compliance there too. Aiming towards both crowds is tricky, but I think it's possible with your feedback :) I'm going to sit and write a "to do" list and try to prioritize it. Now that I know the extension is worthwhile, I might as well open a page for it in MW and put it there, and let people contribute their thoughts here or in its talk page. (Quick disclaimer -- my finals are this week, and I do this in my 'break' time, so please bear with me if I'm a tad slow on answering or submitting improvements! Sadly, exams don't study themselves -- though that *could* have been an awesome extension ;) Please keep the comments coming! This is really helpful :) Thanks, Moriel On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <m...@everybody.org>wrote: > On 05/13/2013 12:26 AM, Moriel Schottlender wrote: > > I'd like to get your opinions and critique on my very first MediaWiki > > extension, which, I hope, will be helpful to other developers. > > I like this idea. I wonder if you could work with the WikiApiary site > (http://wikiapiary.com/) as you adapt this to track releases rather than > just updates in Gerrit. > > I've CC'd Jamie Thingelstad of WikiApiary in case he has any insights > into this. Maybe an API is available that you could use. > > Finally, have you thought of making it possible to update the extension > in-place like WordPress does? > > > -- > http://hexmode.com/ > > Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity > is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. > -- G.K. Chesterson > -- No trees were harmed in the creation of this post. But billions of electrons, photons, and electromagnetic waves were terribly inconvenienced during its transmission! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
