Hi,
One thing is clear, Aditya has a thick skin, which sadly still seems to be a quality required in many open source projects including ours. I wonder of many old-timers would enjoy the kind of reception he got here after introducing himself as a GSoC student -- even by people that know well what is to be an intern or a mentor. As a community, we should do better.
To the point of the thread, we can have a discussion about extension ratings featured at mediawiki.org while wikiapiary.com enjoys the feature and users start using it there. We can even reject the feature altogether if this is what we want. This GSoC project, like all GSoC projects accepted, has explicitly avoided any deployment on Wikimedia servers lacking support from the related maintainers / community. Aditya just wants to get further with his project.
Now, let's continue discussing user ratings as they could be implemented in a first iteration at mediawiki.org. Remember, the goal is to have a proper catalog of extensions, something that today we sorely miss (and thank Jamie for wikiapiary.com).
For those interested in the process of proposing and accepting internship projects, here you have a post mortem of this specific case:
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
This sounds like a serious miscommunication before the GSoC project begun. Something for the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Lessons_learned page, perhaps?
Perhaps, but what is the lesson we need to learn?
Let's look at the history of this project:
* The first idea was proposed in the "Possible projects" on February 2013 by Maria Miteva, as part of her FOSS OPW internship -- https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Mentorship_programs/Possible_pro...
* Between March and April 2013, we fine tuned the proposal as "Research & propose a catalog of extensions", Yuri Katkov volunteered as mentor, and we moved it to the Featured section, and we created a report in Bugzilla -- https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Mentorship_programs%2FPossible_p... & https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704
* During 2013, this project idea was featured in one GSoC round and two OPW rounds before, but candidates didn't pick it.
* In January 2014, at the Architecture Summit, I had a chat with Mark Hersberger and Markus Glaser, aka MediaWiki release management team, where we decided to keep polishing this project at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ExtensionGallery , and they volunteered as mentors.
* This brought some discussion to the Bugzilla report and the wiki talk page. We also reached out to Jamie Thingelstad from Wikiapiari.com, a great service that we already link to in our extensions pages.
* This time we got students interested. Aditya Chaturvedi was the first one reaching to us (as early as February) and he started drafting his proposal publicly by March -- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita/Gsoc2014 -- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-March/075378.html
* The fact of having students interested helped us narrowing the project. We decided to focus on implementing user ratings in Wikiapiary and finding a way to make that data exportable so mediawiki.org or whoever else could make use of it. We explicitly left out of the scope of the project any changes to mediawiki.org.
* Aditya got some feedback during the review process but actually nothing (that I recall) criticizing the focus on user ratings. Then he was accepted. The he started to work under the supervision of Mark and Jamie. You can read his reports at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Adi.iiita/Gsoc2014/Report
... And now Aditya is about to finish his GSoC project (looks like successfully), having followed our processes as they were designed and having accomplished the goals initially set. In the first place he deserves our congratulations and gratitude. The we can discuss what are the best next steps in the direction of improving mediawiki.org.