Hello,
For the next 3 days I will be able to spend my full time on MediaWiki development.
I am really willing to code an administration interface that will superseed the install script and manually editing localsettings.php. My idea so far is that the install script will just deal with things like database and path, everything else will be available in the admin interface.
I am also willing to completly rewrite the rule system. Instead of anonymous / logged in / Sysops / Bureaucrate, I am willing to assign users to groups, each group having rights like "edit, move, special page, site administration, mediawiki, protecting page ...".
Is there any dev already working on one of those two topics ? Do you have any specific idea to share ?
Finally, should I start it now for the 1.4 release or wait for a later release ?
cheers,