MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> writes:
What do you
think?
Am I missing something? The extension has serious vulnerabilities and your
answer is to install it on a public wiki? I don't see how this is even
remotely helpful.
The issue isn't finding people at Wikisource to try out a music
module; the issue is that the extension has technical problems that
need to be addressed. If people want to play around with LaTeX markup
(music-related or not), there are surely a million existing venues on
the Web.
The issue is not to find people who want to try out the music module.
You're right: if people just want to play with laying out music, then
that is a solved problem.
Bug #189 is, as far as I can tell, a request to make machine-readable
musical notation available on the WMF cluster. To do this, we need
developers to get interested in Lilypond or ABC enough to help us deploy
the extensions.
By providing a sandbox that is being actively used, I hope to get some
developers interested -- to show a community that is using their work.
Hopefully we could transfer that work to the WMF cluster after
development on the extension is completed.
If you have a better idea for taking something that has set dead of
almost 3 years and injecting new life into it -- something more than
back-n-forth on the bug or this mailing list -- I'd love to hear it.
Mark.