I don't
think the editor community has much reason to participate. The
template creator community does. They are more than technical to
understand things on wikitech-l.
AIUI the Lua idea was explicitly run past the few people who write the
insanely horrible brainfuck-like ParserFunctions templates. (Is this
correct?) They would be the relevant part of the editor community - most
of the editor community just want the template itself to work, they
neither know nor care about the details of the plumbing.
Fair enough. That satisfies my threshold for consulting the community.
If the people who would be most affected had a chance to give their input
I would say that this project is good to go then.
From what I understand lua was not chosen just randomly
by throwing a
bunch of languages in a hat, there were many requirements, such as
sandbox-ability, performance concerns, and ease of implementing resource
limits, etc. If I recall lua came out the clear winner.
This also seems perfectly fair. My points have been refuted and I humbly
accept defeat.
That said, I do agree that we should plan the roll-out
rather than just
tossing it over the wall -- preparing some initial documentation and
tutorials to show HOW and WHY it's easier/faster than the old system
would go a long way (imho) to assuage complaints of disconnect from what
the community wants.
+1 million. This is a must. No one likes change, but anything we can do
to make that change easier on people will make things better. The old
templating system will still be functional correct?
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott