Subject: [Wikinews-l] Grand Unified Wikinews Technology
Center
All, As you may know, we Wikinewsies are the most
technologically advanced of any group. We've got a bunch of tech toys, and
some of the coolest gadgets. One of the problems with all our toys is that
the source code is stored...everywhere. Some of the scripts aren't even
published publicly. This isn't a problem on day to day activity, but what
if a person leaves the project, goes MIA or god forbid something worse happens
to them.
So I've started the Grand Unified Wikinews Technology
Center. Really, the core goal of this "project" is to get all the source
code for all our goodies in one place. That happens to be setup at http://code.google.com/p/enwikinews/
. If you aren't familiar with Google Code, basically it is a code
repository, wiki and bug tracker all rolled into one.
For improved
communication, I've started #wikinews-tech on freenode and Wikinews-Tech-L on
Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/wikinews-tech
. Some have asked the usefulness of Yet Another Mailing List. It may
or may not be useful, but at least this way we can send more regular emails
about technical things (bitch/moan/complain about Javascript breaking) and not
irritate everyone.
.......
So, how does this effect you? If
you care about technology, write scripts, apps and etc... feel free to stop
by. I'm happy to give anyone that wants to code, commit access. You
can stop by IRC, mail me off list...what ever. If you don't care about
technology, coding or anything of that jazz, feel free to ignore us.