4 Сентябрь 2012 г. 21:40:20 пользователь John Du Hart ([email protected]) написал: Does MediaWikiWiki really need any more shitty/insecure addons that no one is going to maintain? I think we have enough already. Pick out the best of the bunch and nuke the rest.
It is not easy (at least here in Russia) to earn anything via programming MediaWiki extensions. I made some extensions, two for local university and 3 or 4 as freelancer job. They were paid just once. And you have to write them in fixed time, that's why many parts of code aren't cleaned / polished up. While new versions of MediaWiki introduce new functionality, sometimes incompatibility with old extensions. It seems that extension-writing must be full-time paid job, however nobody of employers here wants that. They want minimal, single-time expenses. I guess that's why there are many abandoned and low-quality extensions. Struggling with low income problems is not nice thing, especially for the people who have families. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
