I have posted a new RFC [0] related to the "librarization" project [1] that Kunal, Chad, Aaron, myself and others have been working on for the last quarter. The intent of the RFC is to establish a reasonable set of guidelines for how to manage a library project. The core idea behind the librarization project and this RFC is that MediaWiki will benefit from a more strict separation of components and many of those components solve general programming problems that will also be of interest to non-MediaWiki developers.
The project has done some initial work to pull CSSJanus and CDB out of MediaWiki and make them available as Composer managed libraries. We then added these libraries as requirements in the MediaWiki composer.json manifest and updated mediawiki/vendor.git per the Composer managed libraries RFC [2]. The new RFC attempts to provide a roadmap for additional projects undertaken by the WikiMedia community in this direction. The current draft focuses mainly on the infrastructure that a new library project will need to use (git hosting, code review, issue tracking) and the policy decisions that need to be made (license, code style). There is some discussion of the actual mechanics of extracting a library but they are a bit handwavy prior to the point of having the classes that are to be extracted isolated in the includes/libs directory. I'd appreciate feedback on the RFC either here on the mailing list or on the RFC's talk page. I'm especially interested to hear constructive input on which sections may be too proscriptive and which may err in the opposite direction and be too loose. [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Guidelines_for_extracting,_publishing_and_managing_libraries [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Library_infrastructure_for_MediaWiki [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Composer_managed_libraries_for_use_on_WMF_cluster Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
