On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I started working on two extensions in October, more
than 6 months
ago. Both were approved by community on Village Pump and it was agreed
to deploy them to english wikipedia. One of the extension had hundreds
of lines and is considered as "bigger", the other one consist of +- 15
lines of code, which was developed together with Ian Baker who is
employee of the wikimedia foundation.
I was told that in order to
deploy it, I need to pass code review. I requested code review many
times on many places and although it was more than 6 months ago, no
one seemed to be able to review these 15 lines of code so far
Who? Where?, Have you tried asking Tim or Roan on IRC?.
I understand it, that only employees of the foundation
are actually
permitted to write the code which is going to be deployed to wmf
sites.
No, Everyone is. Just everything requires review before being pushed
to the site and there is a smaller pool of those compared to those
commit code (thus, Backlogs can occur). Since general MW code is
reviewed by many eyes (Since its generally used by more people)
compared to extensions which generally aren't reviewed as much in our
normal code review process.
If that is true, it should be noted somewhere, so
that
volunteers (the people who aren't employees / paid for that) can know
that spending time on creating such an extensions, will likely result
in it never going to be implemented, thus it's not anything they are
suggested to do.
While this is secure for the foundation, so that it can actually have
perfect control over the code which is wikimedia running on, it is
sort of against the idea of open software.
If that was the case, Half (by a small guess) of MediaWiki wouldn't exist.
Some extensions that come to mind (Attached names are rough memory)
* E:WikimediaIncubator - SQRobin
* E:APISandbox - MaxSem (before he was a contractor)
* E:AssertEdit - sanbeg
* E:CategoryTree - Daniel K (i'm fairly certain, but not postive)
* E:CLDR - Niklas iirc
* E:ContactPage - Daniel K
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_used_on_Wikimedia
will find you otheres I'm sure.
(CCing Tim/Roan since I mentioned their names, In the style I did).