> That is just the unfortunate truth. We are > not going to misuse libraries and hack together MediaWiki just so extension > installation can be *slightly* easier.
This sort of behaviour towards non-WMF extension developers is interesting and if your objective is to alienate (as with the attitude above) volunteer developers then your on the right path. Some people forget that users not always choose MW because of its software but because it provides some extensions that people outside of the WMF cluster find useful. On 6/3/14, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > I would also like to express my disappointment at third party users being > thrown under the bus once again. Several people have been putting a lot of > effort into supporting third party users, so it really saddens me that this > is dismissed as an irrelevance by some so easily. > Third party users were not thrown under the bus. Unfortunately, the solution > you are looking for in terms of extension installation is not yet available > with the current tools available. That is just the unfortunate truth. We are > not going to misuse libraries and hack together MediaWiki just so extension > installation can be *slightly* easier. > > -- > Tyler Romeo > 0xC86B42DF > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
