Il 27/10/2014 17:03, Siebrand Mazeland ha scritto:
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Sometimes code, MediaWiki extensions that are no longer maintained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
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I think I was misunderstood. Most of them are just rubbish with no use
cases, but I bet a few still have one.
Unfortunately, if a user is running outdated code and can't just afford
to update it, they would stick with an outdated MediaWiki. This can
block further uses of the software outside of the WMF. I keep seeing
lots of similar cases in the Support desk
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk>.
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