Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (avarab@gmail.com) [050617 07:25]:
Second, I think our products/component setup is a bit of a mess, I already split Images/Uploading into two components (Images and Uploading) but alot more could be done, furthermore they're a bit confusing, for example if there are problems with search on the Wikimedia sites it should not go to MediaWiki => Search but MediaWiki extensions => General/Unknown since Lucene search is an extension. I don't really have any ideas about how to sort the whole thing out though.
If you put it there, then search bugs will never get reported to the right component - when you do a search, there's no indication that you're using an extension, not MediaWiki core itself. So when you refactor components, be sure to remember how reporters will see things, not just the developers at the other end.
- d.