User blog comment:KurwaAntics/Asking the staffs for codeadmin right/@comment-4356266-20150917144453

Agreed. My hands are itching to get back to some code jamming! :P That said, I've started porting some of our functionalities to lua modules but for the purpose of decommissioning old JS code MW editing rights are still required.

If you happen to contact the staff, point them to this blog post.