On Saturday, October 29, 2016, chris tharp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > As a lone tinker with Mediawiki, who pays some attention to things > connected with it, I thought I would ask for a follow up to last year's > Mediawiki Stakeholders survey (see: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group). An > itemized wishlist of most requested features was made (see: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/Tasks/Feature_wishlist ) > with the top four being: > > 1. Easier installation and upgrade (for both core and extensions). > > 2. Editing and Visual Editor > > 3. Skinning and UI > > 4. Access Controls and Rights > > I'm asking for this follow up because as far as I can tell little to no > process has been made on these issues. Additionally in some ways it seems > some things have gotten worse. But I'm hoping I'm wrong and someone with > more knowledge will enlighten me. > > Here's some examples of things not improving, or getting worse: > > 1. Easier Installation and upgrade > a. Three years after the death of the Extension Matrix there still is > still no way to tell when a new extension is released. > b. Composer is an easier way to install extensions, but for those without > command line access it's a nightmare. > c. The upgrade process is still the same > > 2. Visual Editor > a. still a nightmare to install -- not in any sense is it an out of the box > solution. > b. On a shared host forget about the Visual Editor > > 3. Skinning and UI > a. same as extensions -- no easy way to find out about new skins > > 4. Access Controls and Rights > a. The most popular access control extension (Lockdown) only barely works > in 1.27 and causes other extensions to not work: Visual Editor, MsUpload, > and Upload Wizard (there's no doubt more). > b. Almost every other access right extension is unmaintained. > c. The two Semantic Mediawiki Access Right extensions are both > unmaintained.SemanticACL does not work at all in 1.27. > > I know, or assume some of these things are being worked on, but still it > seems the stakeholders feature wishlist is not being translated into action > in anyway. So anyone know something I don't, or don't see on these issues? > > (Btw, this is not a knock on the hard working developers behind Mediawiki, > and/or its extensions. But a desire to see if the desires of third-party > users have any impact on the direction of software). > > Thanks > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >
I dont think the survey results have been passed on effectively to most active developers. This is the first time i have even heard anything about that survey since it was originally launched. Perhaps the comparision is unfair, but compare it to say the WMF community wishlist survey, which I hear about ad nauseum. The user requests I hear about more often are the one's i am more likely to work on. -- Bawolff _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
