On 10/1/13, Jan DudÃk <jan.dudik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I still don't understand, why was abandoned SVN
and is there some git
instead.
Git despite being pain in the ass sometimes because of complexity is a
pretty damn good version control system
In svn times when there was some critical problem,
usually was patch after
some hours. One person wrote it, submited it and other users can download
and use.
now there was critical bug with interwiki.py, which happened about 15th
september. In these days was old sourceforge tracker moved to bugzilla, so
report was lost somewhere. After ten days I reported this bug again[1].
Three days later there was patch, but we had to wait one week more when
another developer rewieved this patch.
Sorry not to see your bug, I sent the correcting patch like five hours
later after I saw it
now there are hundrets of new unconnected articles in
wiktionaries,
wikiquotes, wikinews...
In the meantime there was some diff, from which was possible to patch
manually scripts [2], but not in plaintext, with tabs instead of spaces;
and nowhere was complete patched file to download.
you can do it in linux (and zip it and use it in windows) for example
for my patch it's
"git fetch ssh://USERNMAE@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/pywikibot/compat
refs/changes/47/86047/3 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD"
Just copy the "download" tab in the change page
The second problem is git: some people on IRC said,
that there were many
people in Hackathon who weren't able to instal git correctly - and all of
them have PC with Windows - and it were about 80% of people with windows.
Is somewhere *simple manual* how to install and run git updates on windows?
or is somewhere *simple manual* how to use svn again?
and is somewhere possibility do download certain file from bot? now there
are only nightly dumps, which overwrites my changes in files when I want to
unpack it...
NO! people hadn't issue with git (because we provided files in flash
drives), main problem was BS.
IMHO people should run bots in WMF Labs, not their home PC, and high
proportion of bot operators are doing what is correct in my opinion.
NO! there is a very long and simple manual in here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Installation
Best
--
Amir