Hi!!!!
- Users: what sorts of things are you doing?
Keeping stuff.
- Developers: what are the most frequent feature requests from
intranet users? What are the most annoying ones? Which are the best that haven't been implemented yet?
Once they get used to it - more integration with other processes happening.
- Authentication plugins. The authentication interface is very
good...it's gotten a fair workout from a number of angles (particularly, LDAP). Seems to be reasonably mature.
There're two authentication plugins. One is the AuthPlugin, another, specially crafted for intranets with single signon environments, is utilizing AutoAuthenticate hook.
- Authorization plugins - not much as of MediaWiki 1.5....I'm
guessing (e.g. LDAP group "admins" gets the "edit" capability on resource "MediaWiki: namespace") This is admittedly pretty fuzzy right now.
Actually single hook changed, now you can have 'advisory rules' - chain extensions, and instead of them having just to say "yes" or "no" for 'userCan', you can just say "I don't know".
- New distribution mechanisms. There's already a Debian package for
MediaWiki, I'm assuming there's an RPM out there. Does a PEAR distribution make sense? Does it make sense to package MediaWiki extensions as .deb/.rpm/PEAR thingies?
Well, easiest way to update mediawiki is 'svn up' anyway ;-)
Thanks, Rob
See you! ;-)