Entwickler
Entwickler sind die Personen, die zum Code der MediaWiki-Software beitragen. They commit changes to the central Git repository by pushing changes for review in Gerrit where the latest copy of the software is stored. Zu den Entwicklern gehören bezahlte Mitarbeiter der Wikimedia Foundation und Freiwillige. Jeder kann einen Patch zum Review einreichen, nachdem er einen Entwicklerkonto erstellt hat (aber nur Maintainer können ihn mergen). For statistics or names, see Development statistics.
Developers are not to be confused with system administrators, who are people having shell or root access to Wikimedia Foundation servers, where the code repository is stored. They might not really be developers; in many cases they rarely use their commit access, or if they do, only to maintain non-MediaWiki things in the repository.
Betreuer
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. Sie reagieren in der Regel regelmäßig auf Fehlerberichte und Anfragen zur Überprüfung von Änderungen. A list of maintainers are kept at Developers/Maintainers.
Geschichte
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. Alle aktiven Projekte wurden nach Git verschoben.
Siehe auch
- Entwicklerkonto
- Entwicklungsrichtlinien
- Wie man ein MediaWiki-Hacker wird
- Gerrit's list of MediaWiki group members (core developers with +2 on all MediaWiki repositories).
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