Trevor Parscal wrote:
In response to recent comments in our code review tool about whether some extensions should be merged into core MediaWiki, or not. I would like to try and initiate a productive conversation about this topic in hopes that we can collaboratively define a set of guidelines for evaluating when to move features out of core and into an extension or out of an extension and into core.
I know I mentioned this in a CodeReview comment, but I'll mention it again here: http://mediawiki.org/wiki/List_of_extensions_to_be_merged_to_the_core
I think developing a set of guidelines for this issue might be nice, though I'm not sure there's really all that much disagreement about what should and shouldn't be in core currently.
MZMcBride