Re: [Wikitech-l] My application (Re: Need Developers)

On Nov 30, 2003, at 02:59, Fantasy wrote: *poof* you're a developer! Welcome to the team! :) If you need bug tracker & up-to-date CVS access, let me know your Sourceforge account name and I'll add you. Note that "developer status" for wiki user accounts is vestigial and will likely be phased out completely soon; read-write database access is too dangerous to leave on an unencrypted web connection secured only by cookies so this is no longer done. There isn't really much of anything else that "developer status" confers; most of our developers don't have it, and nobody really needs it. Exercise self-restraint, with luck you'll be able. :D Yeah, we need something there... IT needs to be migrated to the new software, but in the 4,000 article range it will be a lot of work to manually fix up. (Catalan is another one that's fairly large.) Improvements to the conversion script to get case-sensitivity renaming and other fixes done automatically would probably be useful. Everybody thinks it's a great idea, but there's no code for it. :) Two issues: - technically, we need to either use a single common database whenever we use the user table, or else have a central database that each wiki snarfs data from at account creation or login time - we have to sort out existing usernames to see which are conflicting and which are the same user, and how to deal with conflicts Evan's been cleaning up the bug reports and feature requests; there's plenty of material! -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)