On 07/02/13 11:16, K. Peachey wrote:
I don't think people are arguing to keep it lightweight like Tiddly or UseMod but rather on a similar platform on what we already have and to keep the core in a position where it can have features that would be widely used by most installations and the "cruft" that is more rarely used to be housed as extensions.
That wasn't how I interpreted Petr's comment, since the Vector extension is small and has several features which are uncontroversial and should be useful for almost all MediaWiki installations.
Petr said "don't merge anything into the core", not "don't merge rarely-used features into the core".
-- Tim Starling