[19:13:49] why is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/H425 tagging CentralAuth tasks? i'm the listed maintainer of that extension and have heard nothing about any plans for any WMF teams to get involved [19:38:57] there is a team now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Platform_Team who will probably help maintain it (i'm on the team) [19:39:33] but as usual communication is lagging :/ i think folks want to make a grand announcement, but they haven't gotten around to it yet. it's not secret that we exist though [19:39:50] (or so i hope, or i'll get a talking-to ;) ) [19:48:14] MatmaRex: I kind of figured out there's a MW platform team from all sorts of clues :-P but the page you linked has lots of "under construction" tags instead of actually describing what you're planning to do [19:48:52] mostly I'm curious about a) whether you have any grand plans on overhauling the auth stack, or b) whether this means that it's now easier to get reviews on my patches [19:50:41] we're still figuring out what we're planning to do… but a) no, or at least i haven't heard of any b) hopefully yes [19:53:08] for context, my plan for the extension for the last few years has been to try to remove any reason why anyone would possibly want to use it :P https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Taavi/CentralAuth [19:59:06] i think we'd be on board with that, a few people on the team love deleting code ;) [20:09:33] taavi: the immediate reason is cross-wiki login failing in Safari and Firefox (and, if Google actually does it after post-poning three times, Chrome next year). e.g. resourcing T326281 and doing it in a way that isn't a one-off by a volunteer or employee, but in a way that builds familiarity in a team. [20:09:34] T326281: Attempt top-level central autologin when visiting the login page (to allow autologin when the browser blocks third-party cookies) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326281 [20:10:12] and more generally because AuthManager/CentralAuth/OAuth are way too critical to have no steward to fallback on. [20:10:34] individual product priorities and what is / isn't in scope to improve or review, is TBD.