Charles Fishman wrote a terrific article They write the right stuff. [1] for Fast Company magazine in 1996 about the "on-board shuttle group" that works at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX producing some of the most sophisticated and error-free software in the world.
We'll try to focus on some best practices and quality metrics - especially as it relates to MediaWiki.
Cliff notes for process at WMF
- Development_guidelines provides the big picture of policies (MUST) and guidelines (SHOULD).
- Manual:Coding_conventions/PHP covers aspects of how PHP for MediaWiki is coded.
- Code Stewardship is a model adopted in 2018 by WMF as a layer on top of Developers/Maintainers
- Manual:Mwdocgen.php generates the Doxygen output, but the Manual:Coding_conventions/PHP#Comments_and_documentation doesn't mention anything about comments for static analysis
- Hook container with strong types and DI (solved) is part of a series of architecture shifts, and is an example of diving into the details of the codebase.
- API:Client_code/Gold_standard is somewhat interesting - a series of metrics and principles applied to the API Clients listed at API:Client_code
Code Health - project
MediaWiki Code_Health
The Codehealth Pipeline is part of the continuous integration process, and invokes SonarScanner which send results to SonarCloud (by "SonarQube" a product of SonarSource github). The WMF organization account on SonarCloud is at https://sonarcloud.io/organizations/wmftest/projects Individual repos are like https://sonarcloud.io/project/overview?id=mediawiki-extensions-DiscussionTools
Code Health Group - paused, planned to restart in 2024
Code_Health_Group/Quality_Big_Picture
- ↑ Fishman, C. (2017, September 8). They write the right stuff. Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff