On 30.07.2010, 17:44 Jeroen wrote:
I'm currently looking into the repository and
package fetching parts do
allow for such "dialling home".
MediaWiki.org seems the obvious choice to
have the main repository on. There are many ways to then provide the needed
data. Personally I think the best approach would be to install Semantic
MediaWiki (yes, I used the s-word!) so data from the extension pages can be
queried and shown in a distribution metadata format. That might require a
small extension for some new spacial pages, and some scripts to collect
other existing version data and put it into the wiki.
There's already
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWReleases that does
server part of version checks for core, it could be tweaked to
supply version information for extensions, too.
Is it possible to get SMW onto MW.org? This would also
finally be a proof of
concept of SMW on a WMF wiki, on which a lot of people have been waiting a
long time now.
Last time I heard about it, it had huge problems with security and
code quality. Did anything change positively in that area over the
last several months? If s***c developers believe that all Tim's
concerns have been addressed, they should resubmit it for review.
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])