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.