This change provides a mechanism to reset global service instances
in an orderly manner. There are three use cases for this:
* the installation process
* forking processes
* integration tests (which must of the existing phpunit tests are)
Depends-On: I5d638ad415fc3840186a0beaa09ac02ea688539b
Change-Id: Ie98bf5af59208f186dba59a9e971c72ea0b63e69
Bot passwords are something like OAuth-lite, or Google's application
passwords: the bot can use API action=login to log in with the special
username and password, and will then be allowed to use the API with a
restricted set of rights.
This is intended to provide an easy migration path for legacy bots and
for bots on wikis without OAuth, since AuthManager is going to greatly
complicate non-interactive authentication. If OAuth is available, an
owner-only consumer would be a better choice.
Bug: T121113
Change-Id: Iaa4015e00edbfbfaedcc8b2d27a2d3fd25009159
Depends-On: I7e15331efb162275c4116bcae61f19d6b884cbe3
Anything that wants to be "central" right now has to depend on
CentralAuth, and then either can't work without CentralAuth or has to
branch all over the place based on whether CentralAuth is present. Most
of the time all it really needs is a mapping from local users to central
user IDs and back or the ability to query whether the local user is
attached on some other wiki, so let's make an interface for that in
core.
See I52aa0460 for an example implementation (CentralAuth), and Ibd192e29
for an example use (OAuth).
Bug: T111302
Change-Id: I49568358ec35fdfd0b9e53e441adabded5c7b80f
