On 8/11/14, 5:11 PM, svetlana wrote:
Why aren't they implementing a global repository for gadgets, modules, templates which is (IMHO) what the community needs first?
We are.
​SUL finalisation (which is broadly a blocker to much of this work) is currently underway and should help make a lot of cross-cluster desired tools a great deal easier to build. This isn't the only piece of work, but it's been enough to discourage work on these areas for many years.
At Wikimania, a number of staff and volunteer developers re-started work on a global repository for gadgets. I was part of initial discussions around a global repository for source references with structured data stored on Wikibase somehow, and similar considerations for Wikiquote and Wikisource.
Where can I see any of that?
The tracking bug for global gadgets (aka Gadgets 2.0) is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gadgets-2.0. If you want to take a look at the work in gerrit, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/Gadgets+branch:RL2,n,z shows the patches happening in the "RL2" branch. We've also been making some changes to core in the process.
-- Legoktm