On Jan 14, 2014 8:20 PM, "Nathan Larson" <nathanlarson3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Flaschen > <mflasc...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > > > That's not the case. There are components for software the WMF does not > > use. This ranges from major projects like Semantic MW to one-off > > extensions that WMF does not have a use for (e.g. Absentee Landlord) to > > tools that work *with* MW but are not part of it (e.g. Tools Labs tools, > > Pywikibot). > > > I guess it would depend on making the scope of the bug broad enough that it > would seem useful for more than just one site. E.g. one could put > "implement the functionality needed for Inclupedia". That functionality > could be reused for any number of sites, just like SMW's code. On the other > hand, if someone were to say "Switch configuration setting x to true on > Inclupedia" that would be of little interest to non-Inclupedia users, I > would think. I assume that Bugzilla is not intended as the place for all > technical requests for the entire wikisphere? >
Yeah, i think shell-type requests for non-wmf wikis has traditionally been out of scope for our bugzilla (possible exception: acawiki). OTOH I dont know if anyone has ever really asked to use our bugzilla in such a manner, so maybe opinions differ. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
