On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
I guess I should have said without banning [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]. I was kind of assuming this proposal meant banning all site wide js (Since otherwise what's the point of banning default on gadgets? Default on gadgets is just a way to separate common.js into modules for easier maintainability)
Yeah I think it's pretty much established that globally banning Gadgets is simply not going to work unless you also ban common.js. If anything it makes the problem worse, since at least Gadgets allow some organization for the chaos (and users can turn off gadgets).
Submitting patches is not the problem. Getting them reviewed in a
timely fashion is a problem. Having power taken out of local wikis hands is a problem.
I'll be frank. I don't really care. If power is really the issue, then let people from the wikis have +2 on their wiki's Gerrit project. If the cost of increasing site-wide security and alleviating developers' pain is a few upset users who will get over it in a month or two, then so be it.
I'm going to say this one final time, since I'm feeling like a broken record today...
We are not going to use Gerrit for gadgets and so forth. It is the *wrong* tool for the job. Full stop.
-Chad