When you say "extensive consultation" are you referring to the UI or to which preferences could be made global? I think we talked about this on IRC too but I don't quite remember.
I'd also appreciate if you could point me where I could start "diving in", so I can get a sense of how things were done.
Thanks again.
2012/2/15 Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Jeremias Nunez <jeremias.np@gmail.com
wrote:
Hey everyone,
Reading around MW and looking into some ideas for GSoC I ran into this bug, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14950, which I noticed (correct me if i'm wrong) isn't currently being worked on, and as Roan Kattouw said on one of the last comments, hasn't ever been written
yet
(i know it's kind of old, but anyway).
I wanted to get some feedback on the next couple of things:
1 - Is this a feature that could actually be needed/helpful/useful? 2 - Is it true that it's currently not being worked on? 3 - Would it be too big of a project for a single person to take on? (given the amount of time to actually implement it for GSoC)
We discussed this on IRC. A quick recap:
I tried to implement this when I completely refactored the preferences system in 2009. It was eventually reverted in r49932http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/49932. The main blocker was basically considering a way to decide *which* preferences would have their values synchronised. A UI would need to be developed for that and you'd need some extensive consultation on that fact.
If you were to implement this, you could potentially use my original implementation as a guide, though it is reasonably "in the guts" of MediaWiki so you'd have to be reasonably confident "code diving" into unfamiliar software packages.
I'll defer to Sumana on whether or not the project is of an appropriate size for GSoC.
—Andrew
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