On Feb 6, 2008 2:58 PM, Mark Clements gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
- It was written for MW 1.10, so there should not be much work involved in
getting it to apply cleanly to head! (Specifically 1.10alpha, branched at r19771)
Interesting. I thought it was unmaintained. Guess I should have read my own link. :)
What would it take to get this into core? Is there a specific reason why this has not already happened (i.e. known issues, or incompleteness) or is it just a matter of someone not getting round to it (either requesting it or dealing with the request)?
We have multiple big branch merges waiting around right now (e.g., rev_deleted, API edit, . . .). The essential problem is that Brion has to review all commits, and apparently doesn't have enough time to review really enormous ones. One branch merge did sneak in a couple of months ago by merging one or two files at a time, but that was a very modular thing where the changes in different files weren't really related (basically separating some backend logic out from the interface logic). Right now, the best way to get things done is seemingly to avoid branches wherever possible, and implement your feature on trunk only, incrementally if it's too big to do all in one commit.
In any case, the link given on the page is to the Wikidata branch. As far as I'm aware, that's a far bigger project than just a namespace manager. If there's no branch for just this feature, that complicates the issue even more.