On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Ricordisamoa <ricordisa...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> Il 27/10/2014 16:38, Andre Klapper ha scritto: > >> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 16:08 +0100, Ricordisamoa wrote: >> >>> There are currently several hundreds extensions hosted on SVN >>> <https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/> and many >>> of them are still working according to www.mediawiki.org. >>> However, a quick glance shows that many of them are overlapping each >>> other and likely to be unmaintained. >>> It should be of interest to the MediaWiki Cooperation >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation> group to merge >>> extensions where appropriate and move them to git if still useful. >>> >> If nobody volunteers to maintain them, what's the gain of mass-moving? >> >> andre >> > Of course they should be maintained! > But if they're moved to Git, their i18n can be hosted on TranslateWiki and > benefit from regular updates. > > Sometimes code, MediaWiki extensions that are no longer maintained included, and haven't been for years, should just rot and die. Unusable/unused code shouldn't be localised. No one should spend valuable time getting code they don't want to use out of Subversion and into git/Gerrit. If someone REALLY has a use case for something that's still in Subversion, they'll make themselves known. If you want to maintain a particular extension that is in Wikimedia's read-only Subversion, please request it to be moved to Gerrit, do the work on it to bring it up to par with the current code of code, and update the extension documentation page on MediaWiki.org. Please don't just dump code from one place where it's not maintained into another place where it's not maintained. Extension maintenance is not trivial, so you shouldn't assume that "someone" will just volunteer to start maintaining tens or hundreds of extensions no one worked on for years. Siebrand _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
