On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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) > > > > Yeah I think it's pretty much established that globally banning Gadgets is > simply not going to work unless you also ban common.js. If anything it > makes the problem worse, since at least Gadgets allow some organization for > the chaos (and users can turn off gadgets). > > 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. > > > > I'll be frank. I don't really care. If power is really the issue, then let > people from the wikis have +2 on their wiki's Gerrit project. If the cost > of increasing site-wide security and alleviating developers' pain is a few > upset users who will get over it in a month or two, then so be it. > > I'm going to say this one final time, since I'm feeling like a broken record today... We are not going to use Gerrit for gadgets and so forth. It is the *wrong* tool for the job. Full stop. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
