On 3/5/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
You oversimplify too greatly.
Well, I never meant to go into the *criteria* for acceptance, just the *process*. Which, more or less, consists of bugging Brion or Tim, unless we lesser devs can intimidate the sillier requesters into not bothering them in the first place. As for the criteria, yeah, I think you summarized those nicely.
As for chances of making it in, it's perhaps instructive to notice that on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version, I count 17/22 written by either core devs or ex-core devs with at least shell access (Brion, Tim, Avar, Erik; I don't know if Avar/Erik qualify as ex-core devs, but from what I've seen they appear to), and at least three of the remaining five written by non-core devs (Duesentrieb and you). The last two are by Eric Zachte and Guillaume Blanchard, who for all I know were also devs, and those are two of the very oldest extensions.
So . . . make of that what you will. And be sure to add the numerous extensions by various devs that have *not* been enabled anywhere yet, despite requests. Probably Labeled Section Transclusion will be accepted at some point in the not-too-distant future, and ProofreadPage on Wikisource is by ThomasV, so it's not like the chances of getting a third-party extension enabled are zero or anything . . . you just need to be persistent.