Last modified: 2014-08-16 21:28:01 UTC
Adding new attributes to SearchResult and subclasses is a royal pain in the ass. Special:Search has to be screwed around with to handle this metadata in some UI way. So this bug is two things. Clean up SearchResult to have a useful way of returning $randomMetadata and a way to display it.
Yeah this needs a lot of code cleanup; let's spend some time at Wikimania looking at this stuff.
(In reply to Brion Vibber from comment #1) > let's spend some time at Wikimania looking at this stuff. Did that happen or did reality bite? :)
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/152727/ has a proof of concept partial implementation of a metadata array field which could have things stuck in it, but doesn't hook up to a backend yet. I believe Chad did some general cleanup work as well which should be hiding somewhere...