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Manage list of enabled extensions and skins in a JSON/YAML file
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(Somewhat related to T223602: Define variant Wikimedia production config in compiled, static files)

It'd be nice to have a file, in JSON or YAML format, that contains the list of enabled extensions/skins.

Use cases:

  • a maintenance script like manageExtension that could be used with e.g. php maintenance/run.php manageExtension --enable=GrowthExperiments,DiscussionTools or php maintenance/run.php manageExtension --disable=Flow. Slightly lowers the barrier to entry for less technical users in needing to work with LocalSettings.php
  • MediaWiki could consult this file to load extensions/skins; wfLoadExtension() or wfLoadSkin() in Localsettings.php could still work of course
  • phpunit tooling could consult the file to skip over non-enabled extensions (T90875#7991774)

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kostajh created this task.Feb 9 2023, 12:08 PM
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Legoktm subscribed.Feb 9 2023, 3:46 PM

See previous prototype at T118188#2613011 & https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/308891/ and more discussion at T250406.

kostajh added a comment.Feb 9 2023, 5:38 PM
In T329279#8601812, @Legoktm wrote:

See previous prototype at T118188#2613011 & https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/308891/ and more discussion at T250406.

Aha, thanks @Legoktm. Do you mind if I restore https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/308891 and see if I can move it forward?

I should have mentioned T250406 in the description -- there is some overlap, but that is a much farther reaching goal than what I am interested in at the moment. (Speaking of, for your patch, I'd propose to drop the fetch/update subcommands to keep things simple right now.)

Daimona subscribed.Feb 17 2023, 12:25 PM
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