I've been using the JetBrains IDE PHPStorm ever since I really got started in MediaWiki development in 2013. Its symbol analysis and autocomplete is fantastic, and the built-in inspections generally caught most coding issues while you were still writing the code.
But, it's also non-free software, which has always made …
This is the second year I haven't been able to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon due to conflicts with my school schedule (I finish at the end of June). So instead I decided I would try and accomplish a large-ish project that same weekend, but at home. I'm probably more likely …
I announced earlier today that PHP CodeSniffer is now a voting job against all submitted MediaWiki core patches. This is the result of a lot of hard work by a large number of people.
Work on PHPCS compliance usually comes in bursts, most recently I was motivated after a closing …