Hi,
Maybe a dumb question – I get a profound impression that this email
*and* the guidelines are directed at Wikimedia employees, not MediaWiki
extension developers in general.
...why? I thought that most extensions out there are not managed by
Wikimedia, right?
It's just that as someone who wrote several extensions I'm quite puzzled
by most of the non-technical guidelines there.
So, please clarify if these are guidelines for "Wikimedia extensions" or
"MediaWiki extensions". In the latter case – are Wikimedia employees the
right group to be guiding the discussion around these guidelines?
Ostrzyciel
On 1/27/22 05:43, Krinkle wrote:
TLDR: Tech leads please review Best practices for extensions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_extensions> on
mediawiki.org.
Hi all,
You may be familiar with the Best practices for extensions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_extensions> page on
mediawiki.org. It has been marked as a draft since 2017.
I'd like to polish this page and get it to a state where it would be
uncontroversial to label it as "Development guideline
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_guidelines>". This would
not make it a hard policy. Neither does it imply that it covers all
practices in all situations.
Rather, it would mean that the items that are there now are indeed a
part of our current best practices. We would keep it alive through
bold <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold> edits and talk
page conversations, similar to our Coding conventions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/PHP> and
other such guidelines that we maintain peer to peer and through consensus.
The reason I've not simply labelled it as such already is because
before today I found the document to be out of sync with our actual
practices. I have made a number of changes with descriptive edit
summaries to bring it in sync with what I percieve to be our best
practices; based on how myself and other maintainers perform code
review at large, and how we review new extensions prior to deployment.
All are welcome to fix mistakes, raise questions/concerns on the talk
page, on this thread. You're also welcome to message me directly
anytime if you prefer.
If you consider yourself familiar with our practices and/or lead and
mentor other engineers, please take a minute to review the page and
consider whether the items reflect your current understanding and
judgement.
--
Timo Tijhof,
Principal Engineer,
Wikimedia Performance Team.
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