On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:46 AM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Petr Bena benapetr@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?.
Yes, many times
I asked on irc so many times I stopped counting, I created few bugzilla tickets, informed many developers who are working for wmf, and Mark Hershberger (I think there are many more who knew about it)
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.
Review takes so long that until it actually happen, the extension may not be needed anymore (read the first response - 2 years waiting for review and now it seems that a new technology will be implemented which may do similar stuff as extension itself)
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.
I don't say it didn't work in past, I say it's broken right now.