CookieWarning and Cookie Policy doing nearly the same and could be merged
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	Florian
	Sep 15 2016, 6:03 AM

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The CookieWarning (code) extension and the Cookie Policy (code) extension both aims to add a notice to the page, that cookies are used, to conform to the stupid EU cookie law.

There are some differents between both extensions, but probably we can merge both extensions to one. What do you think @ashley?

Steps to resolve this task (when all subtasks are resolved):

Merging Extension pages on mediawiki.org (CookieWarning edit & CookiePolicy edit)
Provide a migration guide (changed configuration options or on-wiki messages)
Explaining what happened on the resulting extension page and probably on mediawiki-l (Link in archive)
Moving the author information of Cookie Policy to CookieWarning (as the functionality moves from one to the other extension) (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/311175/7/extension.json)
Deprecating the Cookie Policy gerrit project
Give Cookie Policy maintainers (gerrit project maintainers) maintainer rights on CookieWarning (+2)

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Bump version number to 0.2.0	mediawiki/extensions/CookieWarning	master	+1 -1

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Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	Florian	T145723 CookieWarning and Cookie Policy doing nearly the same and could be merged
Resolved	Florian	T145780 Add geolocation support (EU/non-EU) to CookieWarning
Resolved	Florian	T145781 The "More information" link should be configurable on-wiki
Resolved	Florian	T145782 Give extension-CookiePolicy and ShoutWiki user groups access to CookieWarning refs/*
Resolved	Florian	T149489 Make the CookiePolicy extension read-only/deprecated in favour of CookieWarning

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Florian created this task.Sep 15 2016, 6:03 AM

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@Florian WORKSFORME. :) The features from CookiePolicy which I think are useful to have are:

optional geolocation support if and when configured so (because targeting non-EU users is annoying...oh who am I kidding, targeting EU users is also equally annoying. But you get what I mean.)
having the "more info" link ($wgCookieWarningMoreUrl) configurable on-wiki, at least if the global isn't set (CookiePolicy uses MediaWiki:Cookie-policy-link for this)

Thanks for filing this ticket, btw. It's silly to have multiple extensions doing the same thing, and consolidating 'em into one is the best for devs and users alike.

Ok, I'll create subtasks for both functions to be merged into CookieWarning (if it's ok for you) and leave this one for merging the organizational stuff, like (this are just ideas from my side, please extend, if needed :P):
(see description for my points, is easier to handle it there :))

Florian created subtask T145780: Add geolocation support (EU/non-EU) to CookieWarning.Sep 15 2016, 2:30 PM

Florian created subtask T145781: The "More information" link should be configurable on-wiki.

Florian updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 15 2016, 2:33 PM

Florian updated the task description. (Show Details)

Florian created subtask T145782: Give extension-CookiePolicy and ShoutWiki user groups access to CookieWarning refs/*.Sep 15 2016, 2:36 PM

Florian mentioned this in T145781: The "More information" link should be configurable on-wiki.Sep 15 2016, 8:51 PM

Florian closed subtask T145782: Give extension-CookiePolicy and ShoutWiki user groups access to CookieWarning refs/* as Resolved.Sep 16 2016, 7:24 PM

Florian updated the task description. (Show Details)

Florian closed subtask T145781: The "More information" link should be configurable on-wiki as Resolved.Sep 17 2016, 9:53 PM

Florian edited projects, added MediaWiki-extensions-CookieWarning; removed MediaWiki-extensions-General.Sep 19 2016, 7:19 AM

For both points: