To clarify, would the proposed new group be for all extensions, or just non-WMF deployed extensions (and i suppose allow others to opt out as well if they so desire)?
-- brian On Tuesday, July 24, 2018, Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > This is Jay. I have some questions and want to know that it is possible to > apply on the ground. > > == Problems == > * I work on the very trivial tasks. and even after working on the very > trivial tasks, sometimes my patch does not merge even after 6 months has > passed. Recently I have Abandoned my some patches due to be not merged > after 6 months has passed.[1][2] > * Recently there are many tasks created on phab to Archive the > extensions. Those > extensions have not maintained in the last 5 years. > * And also We have lack of peoples for reviewing those extension's patches, > which have not deployed on Wikimedia or any other big wiki. > > == Potential Solution == > The potential solution is to create a new group on the Gerrit with +2 > rights. This group will manage those extensions which have not maintained > by the owner in last 1 year (if not, Maybe 2 years). This will save the > extension from being unmaintained. There are many users who have good > knowledge and They review patches like Mainframe98,[3] MGChecker, and > others. > > So my question is why does we not create this type of group? so that users > can managed those extensions which have not maintained in last 1 year. > > [1] > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/LanguageTag/+/406053/ > [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Arrays/+/405057/ > [3] > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/reviewedby:%22Mainframe98+%253Ck.s.werf%2540hotmail.com%253E%22 > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > 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
