Subversion/Code review

Code review is the systematic examination of MediaWiki core and extension code revisions intended to find and fix mistakes overlooked in development. Please test all your code before committing and use a descriptive commit message to make it easier for code reviewers to understand the reasoning behind your revision and to know that all the changes you made were intentional.

Extension:CodeReview helps facilitate the code review process.

Status flags
CodeReview allows revisions to be marked as:

Emails may be sent out periodically via Wikitech-l notifying everyone of how many outstanding "fixme" commits each committer has.

Magic linking
Syntax like "bug 12345" or "r12345" in a commit message or code comment automatically creates a link to the specific bug or revision. When used in a commit message specifically, this syntax also creates links between revisions (to note follow-up revisions, for example).

The commit message and code comment parsers are very finicky. This is noted at.