On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Markus Glaser glaser@hallowelt.biz wrote:
Similar issues arise when you want to use real names instead of usernames.
We do have the option in most places to use a real name just its not enabled in core, AFAIK without testing its used in most places where the username is used already, If you find anywhere where it can be useful, file a bug!
One of them is that we use large third party frameworks and I am not sure I want to maintain them in mediawiki svn (e.g. TinyMCE or ExtJs), nor if I am allowed to do so legally. These could be left out, but then the extension would not be in a working condition when downloaded.
If they are already in a SVN repo somewhere we could do a svn external to link it. (We do this for SyntaxHighlight Geshi IIRC).
Another issue is that we want to maintain release versions of the extension and backport some bug- and security fixes. That basically means branching. And afaik we cannot do that in mediawiki svn.
Are you talking about the upstream packages, the MW release or your extension for this? You can do it if you want, we have TAGS to do extensions based on versions and such (the Semantic* extensions so this).
-Peachey