Core Platform Team/Initiative/Librarization/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.