Hi Russell,
Russell Blau schreef:
I am at a point where it would be helpful to have some feedback from other Pywikipedia users about the future of the rewrite branch. As those who watch the SVN commits know, I have not had as much time to work on this lately, and have to prioritize what time I do spend on it.
For those who have used the rewrite branch, what (if anything) needs to be done to it to get you to use it exclusively and retire the old wikipedia.py system? What is missing? What is broken? What is present but could be improved?
The main reason I use the current branch and not the rewrite branch is that the current branch just works. I run bots to get stuff done and last time I tried the rewrite branch didn't work.
For those who have chosen not to use the rewrite branch, why not? What might lead you to take another look?
If you say rewrite is stable, I'll give it another try.
And then, I'm sure there are many whose reaction to this post has been, "What's the rewrite branch?" I don't know what to ask you, so feel free to move on to the next message.
Most critically, is there any reason to continue development of the trunk once the rewrite branch is at a point where most users are ready to switch to it?
Before we get there the user programs need to be converted and restructured. I think most current commandline programs should be split up in a script part and one of more lib parts.
Maarten
-- Russ
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