Patch set above is for a different thing, but has a typo'd task in the commit message.

Change #1072155 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mhorsey; author: Mhorsey):

[mediawiki/extensions/CampaignEvents@master] Move card template to WikimediaCampaignEvents extension

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1072155

Change #1063735 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/MyVariables@REL1_42] Add support for fetching other pages' image using {{pageimage}}

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1063735

Change #1063735 had a related patch set uploaded (by BlankEclair; author: BlankEclair):

[mediawiki/extensions/MyVariables@REL1_42] Add support for fetching other pages' image using {{pageimage}}

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1063735

Change #1059354 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/MyVariables@master] Add support for fetching other pages' image using {{pageimage}}

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1059354

Change #1059354 had a related patch set uploaded (by BlankEclair; author: BlankEclair):

[mediawiki/extensions/MyVariables@master] Add support for fetching other pages' image using {{pageimage}}

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1059354

Change 940444 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@REL1_40] Add name and description properties to composer.json

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/940444

Change 940445 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@REL1_39] Add name and description properties to composer.json

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/940445

Change 940445 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cicalese; author: Cicalese):

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@REL1_39] Add name and description properties to composer.json

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/940445

Change 940444 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cicalese; author: Cicalese):

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@REL1_40] Add name and description properties to composer.json

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/940444

Change 938469 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@master] Add name and description properties to composer.json

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/938469

Change 938469 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cicalese; author: Cicalese):

[mediawiki/extensions/DisplayTitle@master] Add name and description properties to composer.json

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/938469

@Reception123 - sorry for the long delay in responding. I tried this, and {{CURRENTUSER}} displayed fine for me, on both an unapproved page and a page with an approved revision. Thus, I'm guessing it was fixed, either due to that change in MyVariables, or maybe due to some change in Approved Revs, or maybe even a change in MediaWiki itself. In any case, I'm marking this as "Resolved"; though feel free to re-open this if you think it's still an issue.

Change 928164 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ReplaceText@master] Add lines to composer.json to make it valid

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/928164

Change 928164 had a related patch set uploaded (by Yaron Koren; author: Yaron Koren):

[mediawiki/extensions/ReplaceText@master] Add lines to composer.json to make it valid

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/928164

I personally like the idea of installing extensions with Composer (we have to run Composer anyway for some extensions) but I'm not sure this validation issue is the main problem.

I think all MediaWiki extensions should have a valid composer.json. I tagged those projects I could identify as "affected". Not all extensions have a phabricator tag.

In T311321#8042276, @freephile wrote:

I'm going to re-open this ticket because I do think it is both valid, and separate from T250406

Regarding T250406, I would summarize it as "Create an official public MediaWiki extension registry" (like Hallo Welt does) so Extension authors don't have to bother publishing, and site builders can use Composer.

I'm going to re-open this ticket because I do think it is both valid, and separate from T250406

composer validate --no-check-publish

In Element chat I raised this same issue. (Sorry for forking the thread.)

We used to add name/description/license/etc. to composer.json with the intent of leaving them unpublished and then people went ahead and published them to packagist anyways, so we had to take them out.

In T311321#8034614, @freephile wrote:

But this ticket is not about that. That's the goal of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250406

I'm a 3rd-party (corporate) user of MediaWiki and we use Docker for local sandbox development while hosting official environments (DEV, QA, PROD) in AWS using their analog called ECS (Elastic Container Service).

Please use composer validate --no-check-publish.

composer.json files are mainly used for linter and build tools on the CI or to install dependency for all installs, but not to support install of the extension itself, thats why the files are not needed to be valid.
All the information are just duplicated with extension.json and would introduce maintenance burden or going out of sync. No need to have strictly valid files, along there are usable for CI purpose.

In T311321#8026447, @freephile wrote:

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Publishing is not required. In fact, you can't publish a package with an invalid composer.json file.
There is no reason why MediaWiki extensions should have invalid composer.json files.