On 11/12/11 2:22 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, William Allen
Simpson
<william.allen.simpson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Why not use technical means instead?
Why don't you propose a more detailed spec on
MediaWiki.org, or better
yet, write some code :-)
I'm sure you're trying to be helpful, but last time I wrote some code
here, it wasn't well received. I'd defined it to be language
independent, so that future C parser replacements would be easier.
But it was re-written to depend on PHP date string formats.
Ugh. (Yes, I was thinking ahead back in 2006. Still waiting for
those promised fast C parsers.)
And, I found a bug that was clearly having problems during parsing
time functions in large pages with many templates, demonstrated it at
en.wiki CFD (where I also designed the templates), wrote simple code --
yet it was closed "works for me".
<sarcasm>Yeah, I reported the bug and wrote the code for my health.
</sarcasm>
So, I prefer to get consensus on strategy *before* writing code. And
probably prefer letting the semi-pro PHP code writers do it, so they
don't feel passed over by mere amateurs.
Also, wiki discussions are a waste of time. They are hard to read,
and aren't threaded by MUAs that folks have spent a decade polishing.