Rob Church schreef:
On 23/01/07, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Basic stuff that does not get done? To me the
fact that all Marathi
projects are doing the localisation for EVERY of their project is
extremely basic. This is something that can be fixed. And if I can help
Yes, I agree; in fact, if you'd been in the #mediawiki IRC channel
within the first few days of this month, you would have noticed I
mentioned something about, "it would be great if we had regular
updates for *every* language by the end of the year."
Great to know that more people feel strongly about this.. :)
The next thing to consider is what has priority,
the continued unabated
rush to get new functions in, or is it wise to stop including such
functionality until some of the projects that /are /prioritised by the
People work on what interests them. Would you reject new functionality
and piss off your volunteer coders, or would you rather say, "hey,
cool...now, do you reckon you could...?"
Why reject new functionality? That is NOT what I want to see happen. Not
at all. What I want to see happen is that certain things come to
conclusion. It is awful when because some developer made something that
is pretty things that are basic functionality have to wait. I would not
reject new functionality, I would give it its priority and this means
that it will gets assessed and implemented at the appropriate time. The
problem is that Brion does not scale and neither does Tim.
WMF become a reality. If this means that Brion
does not do anything but
SUL for a month on new functionality until SUL gets done, it would be in
your interest to help him in order to get your stuff in production.
Actually, if I'm blunt; I have little or no interest in single user
login. And it's not in my interest to do anything I don't want to do,
which is why I asked the question, "Is Wikimedia going to pay me for
it?" Unless there's a fat cheque coming my way, I'm not going to even
consider it, because if I were to put a foot out of line and make a
mistake while doing it, I'd probably be ripped to shreds.
There are plenty of other BASIC things that need doing. Getting the
Marathi localisation from the Marathi Wikipedia is just one. As you
agree that getting the localisation for all our languages having regular
updates, it needs some work to get the language files for ALL languages
a language file and make sure that the procedure for new languages
includes the creation of a language file. It makes the ground fertile
for when Brion has the time to check out the BetaWiki software.
Thanks,
GerardM