I'd really like to see a review process where Gadgets move from Gadget status to core. To me a Gadget is a great way to explore a new type of functionality and prove it's worth but it comes with a cost - it's very difficult to ensure a Gadget doesn't breaking with core changes or with the installation of some other extension/gadget. I can imagine this would also be the developer equivalent of a barn star - such a promotion I'd hope would be very flattering to authors and would encourage Gadget writing and innovation. Likewise if a gadget is not being used we should not leave it install on a wiki.
If people don't want to put their code through review this is scary to me - surely the standards of any code we put out to users should be of the highest quality..? We should not be scared of code review and see it as a positive thing that builds our knowledge up and makes us be the best we possibly can. If this is seen as a bad thing we really need to ask ourselves questions about the review process. If people are scared of using Gerrit/Git we should create nicer interfaces into it.. no? (Note for those not familiar with what HotCat is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat) On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's universally liked, is there almost on every wiki, and provides a > much needed functionality. Why isn't this deployed as an extension, or > better yet - part of core, than as a gadget? Just a matter of someone > to do the work? > > -- > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in/blog > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
