https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6455

--- Comment #151 from Victor Vasiliev <[email protected]> 2012-02-25 11:09:05 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #149)
> I don't think injunctions like "Please don't change this unless you are a
> developer." are very cool. It is quite possible that Lua will be decided
> against (as it was before) and then this should be re-opened. 

No, proper scripting language is certainly preferred to string functions in
wikitext and I cannot imagine what must happen so we reconsider this.

> And the previous "WONTFIX - please don't change" was predicated on a stray
> remark by Tim Starling in a mail list. At WikiMania 2011 Tim changed his mind
> several times on the best solution including Lua, parser functions, Victor's
> scripting extension. 

Lua is an almost-final choice, made by consensus of WMF developers. Even if we
change the language, the current plan is to develop infrastructure which is
language-independent (so we can just plug in a different language backend
without rewriting anything else).

> Or maybe we should change this bug to "provide some form of string handling,
> and soon" because otherwise we might have Lua kicking around for another 6
> years and still be no further forward.

It's WMF engineering project now, and as far as I am aware the active work on
it should begin shortly after 1.19 deployment and git migration.

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