Core Platform Team/Initiatives/Librarization
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Librarization
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Initiative Description
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- Summary
Move components that do not depend on MediaWiki’s application logic out of the MediaWiki repository, and release them as separate libraries for use via composer.
- Significance and Motivation
Keeps developers from introducing cross-dependencies by forcing the library code to function without MediaWiki.
Explicitly defining dependencies between components by expressing them in composer.json.
This also makes us Enable re-use outside of MediaWiki core, by unrelated projects but also by client code that wants to interact with MediaWiki.
- Outcomes
Remove all files from libs directory
- Baseline Metrics
None given
- Target Metrics
None given
- Stakeholders
TBD
- Known Dependencies/Blockers
There are already a number of components isolated that could be turned into proper libraries immediately. More such independent components are however expected to result from the Decoupling effort.
Epics, User Stories, and Requirements
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Move test helpers into their own library(ies) (other libs depend on them)
- MediaWikiCoversValidator
- TestingAccessWrapper
- PHPUnit4And6Compat
Select first non-test code in libs directory to extract (something easy/high impact) Remove any remaining dependencies from code (if needed)
- <repeat steps for each lib>
Subpages
A number of libraries have been isolated into the includes/libs directory, but so far have not been moved to separate repositories. More such libraries are expected to result from the Decoupling project.