On Jan 14, 2014 8:20 PM, "Nathan Larson" nathanlarson3141@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.orgwrote:
That's not the case. There are components for software the WMF does not use. This ranges from major projects like Semantic MW to one-off extensions that WMF does not have a use for (e.g. Absentee Landlord) to tools that work *with* MW but are not part of it (e.g. Tools Labs tools, Pywikibot).
I guess it would depend on making the scope of the bug broad enough that
it
would seem useful for more than just one site. E.g. one could put "implement the functionality needed for Inclupedia". That functionality could be reused for any number of sites, just like SMW's code. On the
other
hand, if someone were to say "Switch configuration setting x to true on Inclupedia" that would be of little interest to non-Inclupedia users, I would think. I assume that Bugzilla is not intended as the place for all technical requests for the entire wikisphere?
Yeah, i think shell-type requests for non-wmf wikis has traditionally been out of scope for our bugzilla (possible exception: acawiki). OTOH I dont know if anyone has ever really asked to use our bugzilla in such a manner, so maybe opinions differ.
-bawolff