Cross-posting to mediawiki-l and mediawiki-enterprise, as I should have done initially.

On 04/25/2014 01:36 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

On 04/25/2014 01:27 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

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We'll discuss Ryan Lane's proposal (better handling and versioning libraries that are MW extensions) and Tyler Romeo's proposal (replacing some MW components with more widely used libraries, especially Symfony libraries). Please comment, and look at Jeroen De Dauw's proposal for extension management with Composer, in advance.

I'm sorry for misattributing! "Extension management with Composer" is by Markus Glaser, not Jeroen De Dauw.

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• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/MediaWiki_libraries

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Third-party_components

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extension_management_wit...

Relatedly - take a look at Bryan Davis's https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/119939/ "Add Composer managed libraries" changeset (part of the structured logging work).

Summary & logs of our meeting are up at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-04-29#S... .

We have some open questions for Markus regarding Composer, and for administrators of MediaWiki installations. Would Composer work in your environment?

And it sounds like we only want to replace an artisanal, homegrown MediaWiki component with an externally maintained library if the feature is complicated, upstream is friendly and responsive and aligned with us, and so on, on a case-by-case basis.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/119939/ still needs review.