On 02/07/2013 02:13 AM, Maria Miteva wrote:

Hi all,

If you look at the quarterly goalshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Milestones_by_quarter_14 announced by the Wikimedia Engineering and Product Development department you can see implementation of the Configuration databasehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Configuration_databaseas a goal for the first half of 2013. Configuration should be easier and less fragile with the database replacing .php config files. The database seems particularly interesting for wiki farms. Take a look, share your opinion, and follow its development.

P.S. You can learn about other interesting projects going on from the goals page.

Regards,

Mariya

As the MediaWiki core team is preparing its quarterly review and solidifying its plans for the next quarter, they're moving this work (the configuration database) to the "back burner" for the coming quarter:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Quarterly_revie...

You can check that out for some details on what they will be working on, including API redesign code review, test infrastructure, security issue response, OAuth, search improvements, improving and deploying several volunteer-contributed improvements and extensions, and several other areas.

I also found out that, when they do start working on configuration management, they will start attacking in a piece-meal manner, and it won't come as a Omnibus Rewrite.

I'm sorry that I raised expectations before checking more thoroughly on the team's plans.