Half a century? 50 years? You have been working for WMDE since 2014. Perhaps it would be an idea to discuss the naming scheme instead of doing questionable call to authority?
The interesting point is _what_ to gain by adding unrelated character sequences to names. If some character sequence don't convey any meaningful or important information, then don't add it. It is only adding noise. You use naming schemes to avoid name clashes, but if the context has some inherent properties that block name clashes, then don't add some random character sequences to minimize a chance for name clash that is already zero. What extension could a preloaded library possibly clash with? Such an extension must be written for Mediawiki, and included in Scribunto, without having an extension page at mediaiwki.org. Maintained outside Phabricator/Gerrit, yes, but without an extension page? Does that even make sense? I make up my own mind, and if I wanted to quote somebody else I would have done so. On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:39 PM Thiemo Kreuz <thiemo.kr...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > "How it should be done" according to whom? This might be a dumb > question, but I had the impression you are speaking for a larger group > of people in your initial post. I would like to understand the context > better in which the proposed standard came to be. > > Personally, I don't support the idea of an open-for-everything > "mw.randomStuff" naming scheme. It's half a century that I'm actively > working with code that contains the sequence "mw." literally thousands > of times: https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/search/?q=%5Cbmw%5C.%5Cb. > After all these years my expectation is that stuff is only put > directly in the "mw." namespace when it is general purpose utility > stuff. And people are even trying to reduce this. > > I understand that "mw.ext." is not terribly different from using "mw." > directly. Both are places for all kinds of unrelated random stuff. But > I believe it is still useful to have both: "mw." exclusively for > random stuff that is part of MediaWiki itself, and a different one for > community code. > > Kind regards > Thiemo > > _______________________________________________ > 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
