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" jamesmontalvo3@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 <
ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org
wrote:
Il 27/10/2014 17:03, Siebrand Mazeland ha scritto:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Ricordisamoa <
ricordisamoa@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Sometimes code, MediaWiki extensions that are no longer maintained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.
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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.
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