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The English Wikipedia twinkle javascript helper
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Move twinkle to a GitHub organisation #1140

Closed siddharthvp closed 3 years ago

siddharthvp commented 4 years ago

Suggested by @atlight in https://github.com/azatoth/twinkle/issues/129#issuecomment-702759024.

Should we move twinkle to a new organisation called "en-wikipedia-gadgets"? I think that would be great as we could also host other gadgets without a single-owner such as popups over there. I have wanted to contribute to popups -- but it's so difficult to get code reviews for any big changes due to lack of a repository.

MusikAnimal commented 4 years ago

Maybe "wikimedia-gadgets"? Hopefully one day Twinkle will be global, and other gadgets like Popups could be too.

MusikAnimal commented 4 years ago

I would be happy to migrate MoreMenu to the org. I am the sole author, but that's not by choice. In my view, once a script becomes a gadget, especially if it's "global" (used on many wikis), it's sort of in the community's hands since any int-admin can make changes to the deployed code.

Amorymeltzer commented 4 years ago

Would be neat, although if we’re thinking about a broader (en)wiki gadget org, it should primarily be discussed and organized on-wiki.

It’d be nice to have a centralized(ish) place for reviews (T71445 is a long way off) but I’m not certain how it’ll be perceived, what with requiring another account, etc. Twinkle and MoreMenu would be on-board, and @enterprisey and @evad37 are obvious candidates, but I can see folks objecting to taking things like popups off-wiki (even if it’d be for the better (Also, oi does popups need some love)).

That being said, I think at the very least Twinkle could be made into an organization @azatoth. I’ve thought about asking a few times, if only for some stuff around actions/security/etc.

DannyS712 commented 4 years ago

Agree that having a centralized(ish) place for reviewers would be nice, but also that another account might not be the best idea. Perhaps use gerrit?

siddharthvp commented 3 years ago

I boldly went ahead and created a "wikimedia-gadgets" org, seeing that there hasn't been any activity here for a while, and because it seemed like a nice home for types-mediawiki. Will send out invitations shortly. I don't think there's a need to discuss on-wiki as it'd all be unofficial (either way) and even for gadgets that are added there, there's nothing preventing users from making bug reports or even edit requests on-wiki.

azatoth commented 3 years ago

I boldly went ahead and created a "wikimedia-gadgets" org, seeing that there hasn't been any activity here for a while, and because it seemed like a nice home for types-mediawiki. Will send out invitations shortly. I don't think there's a need to discuss on-wiki as it'd all be unofficial (either way) and even for gadgets that are added there, there's nothing preventing users from making bug reports or even edit requests on-wiki.

I don't have anything against moving the repo, I was just uncertain if it was proper to name the org with wikimedia/wikipedia, so I never created a org; But as we now have that org created, I can transfer it at any time. Just tell me when.

MusikAnimal commented 3 years ago

I already transferred MoreMenu :) @azatoth I would say there's no real consequence to moving Twinkle over now, if you're okay with it. We can make an effort to update links but they all forward automatically anyway (including git fetch/push URLs).

Thanks for starting this, @siddharthvp ! I'll help spread the word.

azatoth commented 3 years ago

moved!