2010/9/6 Bryan Tong Minh <[email protected]>: > As a general comment, I think that it is not strictly necessary to > have your global template usage in core. If you follow the example of > the global image usage, the sharing feature (ForeignFileRepo) is in > core, while the tracking feature (GlobalUsage) is an extension. > Similarly, the interwiki transclusion can be in core, but the usage > tracking can be an extension. > > Of course we can also move global (image) usage to core and have > "global" features there. Another option would be to create a unified > global usage extension that supports file and template usage. > Typically, features are developed in extensions because that's easier, then considered for moving to core (the latter doesn't happen very ofiten, granted). GlobalTemplateUsage was written straight into core, and I see no compelling reason to keep it out of core, especially since it closely ties into one specific core feature.
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