We don't want people copying entire gadgets just to change one variable or something.
Instead the core gadget code should accept options via a constructor or something, and then a local gadget should depend upon that one, and just pass the local settings to the global gadget's constructor.
Just need to document this somewhere!
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | None | T34169 Action to join scripts and styles in one file | |||
| Open | None | T110014 Make gadgets easily customizable (merge Gadgets' branch "gadgetprefs" from GSoC 2011) | |||
| Open | None | T31272 Implement Gadgets 2.0 | |||
| Declined | Legoktm | T72841 2.0: Document best practices for creating local overrides of global gadgets |
Isn't this related to the [[mw:Gadgets 3.0]] work by Salvatore? See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Salvatore_Ingala/Notes
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Salvatore_Ingala/RL2_integration
Please update
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets/Roadmap#Gadgets_2.0
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0
with the current plans. Now at T118224: Gadgets 2.0: Write documentation.