On 11/06/14 13:22, Isarra Yos wrote:
That's a lot of discussion, and I'm not sure which bits are actually relevant here, so to clarify - are you saying that it's been proposed that MediaWiki not be installable from git without extra steps? If so, what would be the purpose of that?
In the current change, the purpose is to provide a clean, feature-rich interface which developers can use to send emails.
In particular, there is a mail library called SwiftMailer which provides bounce detection, among other things. Bounce detection would be a nice thing to have. It is proposed that developers use SwiftMailer directly instead of using a MediaWiki wrapper which optionally uses SwiftMailer. This would make the MW core smaller and thus easier to maintain.
-- Tim Starling