Hey, I'd like to clarify two points about my previous email:
1. it is purely my own personal opinion. It is loose from any of the MediaWiki related projects I am "involved" with. 2. The questions I asked are not meant as criticism on the concept of having a core platform team, treating MediaWiki as a product, or improving the design and quality of the MediaWiki codebase. I think all of these are good ideas and hope WMF is very successful in pursuing them. This is why I'm asking hard questions about problems that I perceive to seriously undermine the chances of meeting the stated goals. Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw Software craftsmanship advocate ~=[,,_,,]:3 On 3 April 2017 at 09:34, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > > Like any significant codebase with a long development history, there are > remnants of design choices and experiments that are no longer in use, and > some areas of code are in need of modernization. However, at its core is a > large amount of highly functional, secure, performant code, capable of > supporting a robust platform through the use of extensions and hooks. There > is also a great amount of flexibility to adapt to new requirements. > > This makes it sound like the MediaWiki codebase is pretty well designed. > That is in stark contrast to my view, which is that it is a typical big > ball of mud with serious pervasive issues too numerous to list. So I'm > curious how you arrived at your view. > > > ... > > The stated goals and lineup strike me as very WMF, and something I've seen > often enough before. What makes you think the results will not be poor > leadership and disastrous technical results (in my estimation costing WMF > many millions of USD) like in the past? What will be different this time? > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw > Software craftsmanship advocate > ~=[,,_,,]:3 > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
