I contacted Magnus and Brion earlier this week to let them know
that I had set up accounts for them on my server which they can
use to test wiki software changes. It has a fairly large database
dump installed, and plenty of space to experiment, and all the
softare needed to develop and test.
Brion hasn't contacted me, but Magnus tells me the setup is
basically OK, so I'll make the same offer to other developers:
my server is available as a testbed; please take advantage of
it. It would be GREAT if some enterprising developer who didn't
want to muck with the wikipedia software itself would take on
writing some testing scripts--just some code that pounds on a
running wiki for a while and exercises its functions. We could
then run that against the running wiki on my site before
installing any software change. It's no big deal if my site
goes down now and then.
I also gave Magnus and Brion access to the new reorganized
software base I've been working on, and I may open that up to
a wider audience soon. It's doing the basic functions of
displaying pages with links and all the wiki formatting, and
handles user login and prefs. I still need to move the code
for page editing/history/etc., many special pages, and some
more internationalization over. It's going remarkably fast,
but it will still take another week or two.
The new software should not only be easier to understand,
faster, and more scaleable, but I've included plenty of hooks
for debugging and logging features that will make it easier
to diagnose problems. Just keeping everyone up to date.
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC