https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40346

--- Comment #6 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2012-09-30 00:16:30 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> >> Aye:
> >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Core_user_preferences>.
> > 
> > So far that seems an inventory of preferences and personal opinions which
> > disregards both my suggestions:
> > 
> > 1)
> >> Do we have any way to ship gadgets bundled with core? 
> > 2)
> >> RfC to produce some criteria to decide [...]
> 
> It doesn't disregard your suggestions, it mostly side-steps them. Some
> functionality should be removed. Bundling the gadgets with core would defeat
> most of the purpose of (a) removing the user preferences from core (you don't
> lose the code weight); and (b) removing the user preferences generally (as
> you're essentially just moving the preferences from one tab in
> Special:Preferences to another).
> 

Indeed.

Aside from that, it is imho technically a bad idea to ship gadgets by default
(unless provided through a repository). Because gadgets are stored as pages, so
they'd get out of date quickly and would only clutter people's repositories
with hardcoded copies. Also note that Gadgets is an extension, not a core
feature.

We don't want more scripts floating around doomed to get out of date and not be
used.

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