Desenvolupadors

Poster "sign-in" during the first conference for MediaWiki developers, which took place on December 29, 2004 in Berlin, Germany.

Els desenvolupadors són les persones que contribueixen al codi del programari MediaWiki. Envien els canvis al repositori central de Git enviant els canvis per a la seva revisió a Gerrit , on s'emmagatzema la darrera còpia del programari. Els desenvolupadors inclouen personal remunerat de la Fundació Wikimedia i voluntaris. Qualsevol pot enviar un pegat per a la seva revisió després de crear un developer account (però només els mantenidors el poden fusionar). Per a estadístiques o noms, vegeu Estadístiques de desenvolupament.

No s'han de confondre els desenvolupadors amb els administradors de sistemes, que són persones que tenen accés al shell o root dels servidors de la Fundació Wikimedia, on s'emmagatzema el repositori de codi. Potser no són realment desenvolupadors; en molts casos, poques vegades utilitzen el seu accés de commit (edició), o si ho fan, només per mantenir coses que no són de MediaWiki al repositori.

Maintainers

A maintainer of a specific project (including MediaWiki core or an extension) has +2 access to the relevant Git repository, so that they can merge patches others submitted. They usually regularly respond to bug reports and changeset review requests. A list of maintainers are kept at Developers/Maintainers.

History

Historically, developers also managed Wikimedia Foundation servers (now managed by system administrators). Before bureaucrat and steward groups were created, developers were the only ones able to promote and demote sysops, and lock user accounts (before the "block" feature of MediaWiki existed). Thus they had an important role in the Wikimedia power structure.

From April 2006 to March 2012, Subversion was used. Only people with Subversion commit access (which must be approved by SVN administrators) could submit code changes. Code changes submitted to Subversion was merged to MediaWiki codebase immediately (though they could only be manually deployed to Wikimedia wikis by a system administrator), and may have been reviewed by "coders" before they are deployed. In January 2013, the MediaWiki SVN repository was made read-only. All active projects have moved to Git.

See also

• Developer account
• Development policy
• How to become a MediaWiki hacker
• Gerrit's list of MediaWiki group members (core developers with +2 on all MediaWiki repositories).
• Nous desenvolupadors