I do remember that you said that, but I don't remember that being the consensus. If there is real traction on something that is MW-specific, then I'm all for it, but this is something that works *now* as Antoine has demonstrated.
It was Daniel Friesen's suggestion, and then myself and a few others agreed with him. Here's the original thread: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-September/063503.html *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.orgwrote:
On 10/25/2012 10:51 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
Well I think we agreed before somewhere that we should not use Composer
for
installation of MW extensions, and that MW is in dire need of its own extension management code.
I do remember that you said that, but I don't remember that being the consensus. If there is real traction on something that is MW-specific, then I'm all for it, but this is something that works *now* as Antoine has demonstrated.
From the tweet, it sounds like Robla reached out to Nils Adermann. If that is what happened, then I'm very interested to hear more from the WMF side.
Mark.
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