Pavel Ivanov

I understand your desire to make core jQuery-free: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/wiki/Roadmap#client-side But I don't understand why the next steps is needed for the **2.1 core version** (according to «Yii2 Roadmap»): - [...

Why?.. It's just extensions. For example, I've been using Yii without them for many years.

These extensions are usually placed in `composer.json` in `require-dev` section: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced/blob/f9100a0f15e0c4c53db77bac1559d6e29304b0eb/composer.json#L22-L28 I generally do not see a problem in that development tools require jQuery. It's crazy to complicate the development...

> Well, that's correct. It's not a huge priority. If so, then we need to remove these items from the core RoadMap. At least remove them from the requirements for...

In the past, I solved a similar problem for yiiframework.ru: https://github.com/samdark/yiiframework-ru/commit/50a59423fc8068de64516b4f1af032b191c1faa0 It can be useful for PR.

@xepozz can you describe in detail how you would like to work with upstream? What exactly do you want to do with it with the tool?

> That is about pulling changes from upstream/master (original repo) into origin/master (fork). That's common workflow despite the fact that you can directly branch from upstream/master for your pull requests....

This is not actually a bug. This is a feature! =) The tool tries to be as smart as possible, but there are several possible cases here: 1) You want...

But, by the way, I see that now there are much more packages. More than one hundred ... It may be more convenient if the base configuration won't offer all...

@samdark do we have a special place for infrastructure/general tasks? It looks like this task is about yiisoft development in general, but not about `yii-dev-tool` itself.