Re: [PATCH 00/15] remote-mediawiki: various fixes to make tests pass

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:29:03PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

I had occasion to look at remote-mediawiki and I couldn't even get the
test suite to run. The patches below have more detail but there's
issues like a hard error on any Perl release newer than ones released
in 2013, and the MediaWiki release it tries to use spewing errors on
any modern PHP version.

This series fixes these issues. With it applied it's possible to run
the tests, and they all pass.

These all look reasonable. I left a few minor comments, but frankly, I
care little enough about this clearly unmaintained bit of contrib/ that
I would be happy either way.

I am a little puzzled about what we want the future of contrib/mw-to-git
to be. It sounds like there have been a few minor improvements in the
external GitHub project (though clearly lacking a bunch of fixes you
have here). Should we be pushing these fixes up to that version and then
either:

  - considering that project the upstream, and reimporting from them
    once the fixes are merged there

  - ejecting it from contrib/; it can live on as a separate project

-Peff