Hey all A month has passed since my last e-mail and while I received lots of feedback (mainly relating to the structure and readability of the document) there were no concerns about making this official and I have thus made the page official.
If you work on extensions or MediaWiki core, please read through the changes outlined below, and have a look at the policy page at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy/frontend>. Given the substantial edits to the page itself to change structure and readability (but not meaning) please review the open topics on the talk page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Stable_interface_policy/frontend> This document is intended to be a living document that evolves with our shared needs over time, so this should not be seen as a perfect finalized document. I hope this helps provide Wikimedia sites with a healthier ecosystem, particularly for gadget developers. Thanks to all those who have engaged in this process over the last two years [1] and special thanks to Amir Sarabandi for help relating to its roll-out. Jon [1] Note: In my original email I mistakenly said that we had been working on it for 3 years. On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 4:28 PM Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear fellow developers! If you don't work on gadgets or Wikimedia code, > feel free to ignore this email! > > For some time we've had the Stable interface policy which has been super > helpful for backend-development. I would love us to have an equivalent for > frontend code. > > For the past 3 years we have been building one with feedback and > suggestions from gadget developers, WMF staff and Wikimedia volunteers. The > current draft can be found at: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/Stable_interface_policy/frontend > > I would like to make this policy official so that we can get the benefits > of having a document and continue to evolve it in a more official capacity. > > If anyone wants to veto this, I'd like to hear from you on the talk page > or by a reply to this email (either privately or publicly). When making a > veto please make that explicit and include the text you find problematic > and details about why. > > If there is no active veto after one month, this policy will be made > official and moved to > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy/frontend. > > Thanks in advance for all your help with this important matter! > > Jon Robson > PS. This note has also been sent to tech news. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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