Hi Max and David,
Thanks for your feedback. To clarify a bit, we're not thinking of using
LiquidThreads as it is - we have a different extension we will be building,
with some different needs than LQT has. For example, we may not need any
integration with watchlists. So our thought is that we might fork LQT and
modify it to suit our needs. We're still very early in the design phase.
Max - when you say just use Flow, do you mean we should fork the Flow code
base and work from there, or that we should just install Flow? Flow looks
interesting, but we're not sure it will have the features we need, and our
timeframe is likely to be shorter than the timeframe of Flow development.
Is there somewhere I can go read in detail about the bugs and unfixable
problems with LQT? We might not fork LQT at all, but we were also thinking
of using wiki pages to store comment text. So if that idea is fundamentally
broken, it would be great to know why.
Thanks!
Jason
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:55 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would disrecommend it - it's an effectively dead
project, and the
problems aren't fixable.
rationalwiki.org took it on board, since WMF
said it would be developed ... it still causes infuriating bugs (e.g.
PHP out of memory generating watchlists for one user with a ridiculous
watchlist) that we have no interest in tracking down. As soon as Flow
is stable and can import LQT, we'll be doing so.
On 30 January 2015 at 14:13, Jason Ji <jason.y.ji(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
My team at the MITRE Corporation is considering using the LiquidThreads
(LQT) code base as a starting point for a new commenting extension we are
writing. We would either fork LQT and work directly on the existing code,
or at least use the code as inspiration or a basis for how to start
designing our own extension.
I'm aware that development of LQT was canceled over three years ago - can
anyone shed some light on the backstory of why it was abandoned? If there
were some fundamental technical flaws with the extension, that would be
good for us to know if we shouldn't waste our time; on the other hand, if
it was more of a policy/philosophy reason, then that would also be good
for
us to know, to see if that reasoning applies to
our needs.
Thanks!
--
Jason Ji
The MITRE Corporation
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