2011/4/3 Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com:
In particular, I think there's some low-hanging fruit in the Gadgets system. Right now it's honestly pretty awkward to create a Gadget in the first place, and sharing code modules between wikis requires a lot of cut-and-pasting (which leads to divergent code bases, which makes maintenance nigh-impossible in the face of MediaWiki framework changes).
I'm not a real MediaWiki developer, so it may be a silly question: How hard it is to convert a gadget into an extension? If it's not too hard, wouldn't it be better to redo useful gadgets as extensions? Unless i miss something very basic, this will make them easier to maintain, install, update and localize.
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