On 03/08/2014 02:10 PM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:

On 08/03/14 09:15, Niklas Laxström wrote:

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Please do not forget the contributors who want to improve MediaWiki for their own needs. We also have to balance how much we inconvenience them to meet the requirements of WMF. In my opinion, the balance is already in favor of WMF.

-Niklas

This.

MediaWiki serves many interests, and it's already hard enough for third-party users to contribute their features/improvements upstream that most simply don't even try. We should be trying to improve this, not make it even worse for them, because these are often things that would prove widely useful even if they are not /currently/ WMF priorities (it is not uncommon for them later become such and then have to be completely reimplemented).

+1.

BTW, anyone care to have a look at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/67173/3 ? :)

(It's been sitting around for a good while, and it would make my life tons easier if it could get into the 1.23 LTS.)

LW