Ryan Lane wrote:
I thought it was decided quite a long time ago that meta was for discussing the projects and not a place to keep random tech documentation, or am I mistaken?
The issue, as I understand it, is that there's a good amount of non-MediaWiki-related technical documentation that people are now trying to shoehorn into mediawiki.org, as there isn't a better place for it. A sizable source of these pages is Wikimedia Foundation engineering-related documentation, some of which clearly belong on mediawiki.org, but some of which clearly do not. Erik and others seem to believe that centralizing everything at mediawiki.org (and ignoring or expanding that wiki's stated purpose) will be less confusing/better in the long run. I'm doubtful.
There was a proposal (in 2012, I think) to expand a "Wikitech" wiki, but it seems to have died fairly quickly. I'm not sure why.
A generic developer hub would logically be placed at Meta-Wiki. However, if the reality is that the developer hub is focused primarily at MediaWiki, having a page at Meta-Wiki where every link points back to mediawiki.org is a bit silly.
A lot of this could use more thought, but nobody really seems willing to plan this out and then execute the plan.
MZMcBride