2011/4/3 Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>om>:
In particular, I think there's some low-hanging
fruit in the Gadgets system.
Right now it's honestly pretty awkward to create a Gadget in the first
place, and sharing code modules between wikis requires a lot of
cut-and-pasting (which leads to divergent code bases, which makes
maintenance nigh-impossible in the face of MediaWiki framework changes).
I'm not a real MediaWiki developer, so it may be a silly question: How
hard it is to convert a gadget into an extension? If it's not too
hard, wouldn't it be better to redo useful gadgets as extensions?
Unless i miss something very basic, this will make them easier to
maintain, install, update and localize.
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