Hi! I've developed my extension and I am not yet sure it's stable enough to be uploaded to MediaWiki SVN. Also, I don't have SVN commit access, and I am not sure that I will be able to continuousely support my extension in the future (to make sure it will be compatible with the future versions of MediaWiki).

I've created a documentation page for my extension at mediawiki.org, then tried to upload tgz archive with it. But, MediaWiki refuses such upload by default, and there's no way to enable it besides adding some obvious settings to LocalSettings.php file (I've done it for my local wikis).

In #mediawiki IRC channel I've been told that tgz upload is insecure and poses a risk. I am a bit in doubts about that. First of all, tgz files are so much integral part of unix/linux distributions, that most of possible overflow and injections bugs should be fixed already. Second, anyway, user has to follow a some link (let's say on the external site). Risk (if there's any?) isn't really going away. Dmitriy