If a project appears to be abandoned but is in Gerrit already, what is the process to become the maintainer?
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Ricordisamoa <ricordisa...@openmailbox.org > wrote: > 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 Sometimes code, MediaWiki extensions that are no longer maintained 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > 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>. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
