Talk:Upstream projects

Possible "Invented Here" entries
Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 18:05, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

We have a pile of such Components as well for Wikibase. (Wikibase Components) Not sure it makes all that much sense to maintain a copy of the list though. --Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 19:25, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Need clarificatrion

 * Our developer community relies on several upstream projects delivering software that we embed in our architecture or our processes.

Does this mean "WMF", "MW core", "WMF + anything MediaWiki", or something else?


 * At the same time, our community develops software projects used by others, for which we are their upstream.

So all things that depend on MediaWiki should be listed? That's a lot of stuff... Also, not sure where this fits on the page.

--Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 19:25, 18 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I also don't understand what's the difference between this and Bug_management/Upstream_bugtrackers. --Nemo 20:17, 18 March 2014 (UTC) P.s.: There is some language stuff that I listed on ohloh.


 * I've also linked some more ohloh projects I created. The pieces of software (beyond MediaWiki extensions) created by "us" are in the hundreds or thousands. I think ohloh is a better place where to catalogue them and it's hard enough even there. I have no idea what would fit here.
 * Speaking of which, I'd like someone to play with (existing) mediawiki2git tools to bring all CSS/JS pages of Wikimedia projects into a git repo and see what ohloh gets out of it. :) --Nemo 08:36, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Throwing things
Throwing things that fly through my head:
 * Varnish
 * Memcached

If you are also looking for stuff that is used on projects:
 * IIPImage, run from ToolLabs, is linked by default for all uses from Wikimedia Commons.

Hope that helps, Jean-Fred (talk) 13:19, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Given the lack of oppose, I added a new section for proejcts embedded/linked/used/etc. on projects, started with IIP. (I suppose there are some JS libraries that have copied over to many projects) Jean-Fred (talk) 10:09, 16 April 2014 (UTC)