(I don't know what it is with Gmail. If you click "reply" it will only send to the original sender, not to the mailing list)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Huji huji.huji@gmail.com Date: Nov 6, 2007 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Rewrite thoughts (includes replies to the 4507-thread) To: Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com
Someone spoke about democracy here?!
As a citizen (!) I vote for: camelCase for functions and variables and CamelCase for class names. (The difference between the two is obvious, isn't it?!)
About BOM, I hope every editor has a way to add it to the beginning of the file. (In MediaWiki codes, when a BOM was added by notepad, I had to remove it to make the code work correct, and it was a pain in ass; now, I have this pessimistic feeling about adding it for Pywikipedia).
Moving to the API is great, but it has its limitations. For example, to my knowledge, it is impossible to get a list of more than 500 pages from the API, so perhaps we need to find a way to get a bigger list (for example for autonomous tasks).
About the backward compatability issue some people notified previously, I think it is a good idea to start tagging versions of Pywikiedpiabot. For example, version 1.0 works with HTML parsing, version 1.1 implements API only and works with MW 11.0 and above, version 1.5 works with API only and MW 12.0 and above, and so on.
I strongly support the idea of separating the framework from the bots. With that in mind, I think we should use a different approach about i18n and l10n. Consequently, I'm making no changes to the /pywikipedia/messages branch, untill we know how the new i18n system is going to work.
Finally, as many of you may know or guess, I'm not a professional programmer, so my comments may look a little silly, or worded in a way you don't usually expect. So excuse me about that.
Hojjat (aka Huji)
It might be the setup of the mailing list, I know there is an option that specifies whether replies get sent to the entire list, or just the poster (poster is default so it might be set that way). Might a list admin be able to check this out?
On Nov 7, 2007 4:11 AM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
(I don't know what it is with Gmail. If you click "reply" it will only send to the original sender, not to the mailing list)
This is the subject of heated debates in mailing list land. A list that redirects replies to the list does not give you the option to reply to the poster. Many mailing list managers therefore find that it is bad taste to do so.
All mail programs give you the option of "Reply" and "Reply to all". Gmail is no exception to that rule. It even offers the option to change your mind while writing the reply message.
Rob
2007/11/9, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com:
It might be the setup of the mailing list, I know there is an option that specifies whether replies get sent to the entire list, or just the poster (poster is default so it might be set that way). Might a list admin be able to check this out?
On Nov 7, 2007 4:11 AM, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
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