Re: [Wikitech-l] On third-party users of MediaWiki and collaboration with upstream

2011-09-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Jack Phoenix j...@countervandalism.net wrote: What's common to third-party users of MediaWiki is not just custom extensions, but sadly core changes, or as they're better known, core hacks -- unsupported changes to the core of the MediaWiki software. I think

Re: [Wikitech-l] On third-party users of MediaWiki and collaboration with upstream

2011-08-29 Thread Jack Phoenix
Hi Joachim, thank you for your message. I agree that it'd be brilliant if third-party users wouldn't have to branch MediaWiki for their code! Hiding some things behind a configuration variable, like how Markus suggested, is certainly doable, to an extent. However, there will be things that need

Re: [Wikitech-l] On third-party users of MediaWiki and collaboration with upstream

2011-08-20 Thread Markus Glaser
Hello, at Hallo Welt!, we are currently discussing some similar issues. The question is how deep we should and could tie in with mediawiki svn in general. Here are some things that came to my mind: Changes to core: While BlueSpice is essentially a MediaWiki extension and has a policy of