Great blog post and awesome achievements! I've spotted a small typo in the text: "that offer more compelling featuresd."
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > For the last four months, my main focus has been the Librarization > project [0]. Today a wrap up blog post was posted to > blog.wikimedia.org [1] that I'd invite all of you to read to get an > overview of what our high level goals and motivations were and what we > accomplished. The TL;DR is that we now have some guidelines for how to > separate code from MediaWiki and publish it as a semi-autonomous open > source project. > > The blog post ends with a thinly veiled call to action for MediaWiki > developers to continue the work of extracting code from the current > MediaWiki core application and publishing them as independent > libraries. We've published some information on how to deal with git > hosting, code review, and various other general issues on > mediawiki.org [2]. There is also a list of some areas of the existing > code base that we thought would be interesting targets for extraction > [3]. The CDB library [4] can serve as one concrete example of using > the guidelines. > > I'd like to invite anyone interested in starting work on decoupling a > particular area of the code to start a thread on wikitech-l and file a > task in Librarization phabricator project [5] to attract collaborators > and help reduce possible duplication of effort. It would also be great > to have edits on the list page and/or phabricator tasks to act as a > wish list of things that know of in MediaWiki that you would either > like to be able to use in a non-MediaWiki PHP project or feel would be > a good candidate for isolation so that alternate implementations could > be introduced. > > > [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Library_infrastructure_for_MediaWiki > [1]: > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/29/modernizing-mediawiki-with-libraries/ > [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Developing_libraries > [3]: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Library_infrastructure_for_MediaWiki/Library_list > [4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CDB > [5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/librarization/ > > Bryan > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > _______________________________________________ > Engineering mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
