On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org wrote:
I saw (via Siebrand) this tweet Tuesday from Nils Adermann of Composer fame:
Fusing #PHP communities: Promising discussions on code reuse in #MediaWiki through #composerphp this afternoon at @wikimedia, thanks @robla! https://twitter.com/naderman/status/260918497276731392
What is the status on this discussion? Are we planning to use Composer in the future? This sounds really exciting!
We had an impromptu conversation with Nils since he's currently staying very close to the SF office this week. Had we not run into scheduling issues, we might have had him join our weekly tech chat so that remote participants. We plan to have him in a tech chat in the near future.
No decisions were made. The discussion we had was really an educational one for Chris Steipp, Aaron Schulz and myself. Nils demonstrated the main features of Composer to us, and then the conversation wandered on to Symfony.
Symfony, incidentally, has apparently been through a major rewrite in the not-too-distant past, and now focuses on providing a suite of reusable standalone components. Apparently, several older projects (phpBB, Joomla Platform, Drupal) are starting to incorporate Symfony components in their work.
Some of what we were doing was a brief redux of the conversation many of us had at the GSoC Mentors Summit. Very rough notes here: http://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/PHP
Rob