On 12/11/13, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> One of the primary reasons gadgets/local-js exist is because local
>> wiki-admins feel that the mediawiki code review process is unavailable
>> to them. I would expect any sort of code review requirement for
>> gadgets to meet strong resistance, especially on the smaller wikis.
>>
>> I also think it would be unenforcable unless one plans to ban personal
>>

>Not necessarily. Individual user JS applies only to the one user,
>while gadgets apply to potentially many and [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] to
>everyone.

I guess I should have said without banning [[MediaWiki:Common.js]]. I
was kind of assuming this proposal meant banning all site wide js
(Since otherwise what's the point of banning default on gadgets?
Default on gadgets is just a way to separate common.js into modules
for easier maintainability)

>
> In this case we should promptly work to fix this issue. To be honest, the
> only difficult part of our code review process is having to learn Git if
> you do not already know how to use it. If there were a way to submit
> patchsets without using Git somehow (maybe some kind of desktop
> application), it may make things easier.

Submitting patches is not the problem. Getting them reviewed in a
timely fashion is a problem. Having power taken out of local wikis
hands is a problem.

--bawolff

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