If the old maintainer is still around, ask them if they are ok with you taking over. ( just to avoid stepping on toes)
If they cant be reached, ask at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Project_ownership explaining why you want to take over maintinance of the extension. Helps if you have pre existing commits to said extension you can point to (or even pending commits), but generally the barrier should be pretty low for non-wmf deployed extensions that are clearly abandoned. (Imo). --bawolff On Oct 27, 2014 1:58 PM, "James Montalvo" <jamesmontal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 Sometimes code, MediaWiki extensions that are no longer maintained 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
