Requests for comment/Inventory hooks, assess need
Inventory hooks, assess need | |
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Component | General |
Creation date | |
Author(s) | ^demon |
Document status | in draft |
Background edit
MediaWiki currently has many hundred hook calls. Many were introduced with little discussion or consideration and are rarely used.
Problem edit
Hooks make code hard to test, hard to debug, and tend to be rather single-use in their implementation.
Proposal edit
We should inventory all of our hooks. See which ones are being used and are necessary. Can some of them possibly be rethought or replaced?