El 5/4/09 9:27 PM, Aryeh Gregor escribió: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Brion Vibber<[email protected]> wrote: >> My inclination is that the current model for Configure extension isn't >> sustainable (manually tracking addition of configuration variables and >> trying to present a UI for overriding them). >> >> We should start considering migrating most config settings to a >> queriable configuration database; this can allow new extensions etc to >> specify their own admin control panel settings requirements, like what >> we're seeing with the new user preferences. >> >> Attention needs to be placed on ability to cleanly specify group >> defaults (eg, all wiktionaries get this bit, all Wikibooks get that >> one), and have a couple different permission levels so eg local admins >> might be able to make some config changes while others are reserved to >> system administrators. >> >> I'll toss up a few spec ideas on the tech blog& wiki... > > Are you thinking this should completely replace LocalSettings.php?
Not completely; at a minimum you need to specify database contact info somehow. :) > In that case we might want the ability to inject arbitrary PHP > code anyway (maybe by file edits, maybe through web interface), in > case people want to do more complicated stuff. Eww? Just put your scary code in LocalSettings.php. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
