Well, bluntly put, since LDAP is how most non-WMF staff sign into
phabricator, I'd say it's become an essential extension.

So yeah, this one should be taken over by WMF staff.


Risker/Anne

On 18 September 2015 at 12:54, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote:

> <quote name="Thomas Mulhall" date="2015-09-18" time="16:37:48 +0000">
> > Hi maybe Wikimedia can maintain if they want to. Who ever is in charge
> of maintaining extensions for Wikimedia would you like to maintain this one
> since this extension is used at wikitech I think which is owned because
> wikitech is used to create an account for gerrit.
>
> You write that like (the) Wikimedia (Foundation) has a single mind :)
>
> There is no person in charge of maintaining extensions for Wikimedia;
> all engineering teams are managed independently (to varying degrees) and
> what they work on and maintain is an ongoing balancing act of time and
> promises.
>
> For the record: there already more than 0 extensions in use on
> WMF-hosted wikis that aren't "maintained" by WMF or otherwise actively
> maintained :)
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions_used_on_Wikimedia
>
> (I hesitate to link to this page as well, because it is most likely
> always out of date and gives wrong impressions in multiple directions,
> but: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers ).
>
> Greg
>
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