On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Usually an experienced developer, most often with shell access, needs to champion a contributed extension if it's going to be deployed. Championing can be a long and complex process.
There is no written policy that says this, and maybe it's not ideal, but in my experience, it's how things work.
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Just a quick update, since it's been a couple days:
Tim, thanks for posting and clearing this up. I really appreciate it. I'm working on a couple drafts for either meta or mediawiki.org (not sure which is most appropriate, but I think that'll be clear when they're more written), which explain this process and link to tools for navigating it.
-Ian