Magnus Manske wrote:
[snip]
Then, I think it was two weeks ago, you said that,
after seventeen month
of hot air, that the validation feature was unsalvagable. So I went
ahead and rewrote it as a feature, which was one of your wishes some
month ago. I have not heard anything about that from you either.
I haven't had a chance to go over that code yet; I've got to review that and
Erik's wikidata stuff still. But I do feel a lot better about it being done as
an extension, and I'd love to see it up and running soon.
What *I* wish for is a process like this:
* Someone writes a major new function/extension to be used on the
Wikimedia sites
* Someone in charge of these sites (Tim, Brion, whoever) says either
** "OK, that's great, we'll use it right away" OR
** "No, we'll never use that, so don't waste your time" OR
** "We would use it if you fix THIS and change THAT"
Yes, we need to be better about that. I know the most frustrating thing is
waiting for a solid reaction, and I'm sorry I haven't been as good about that as
I should.
Please call me on it if you see me being wishy-washy on things.
So, to come back to the original topic, this is *the*
chance to answer a
few of my questions:
* Is /anyone/ actively working on a stable version feature?
Tim has been working on it for about a week, and is about to commit into a branch.
* If so, is it already more advanced than the code I
put into CVS?
We'll see when he commits his code, which should be Very Soon Now.
* Is there some other reason this can't be done
based on my code?
Who knows. :D
I'll be on the 22C3, so maybe we could discuss
these things in person.
Great, I'll see you there!
A few things:
* Those of us who are mostly chatting on IRC, we should remember to keep
everybody posted on the mailing list when we start or finish something major.
* If actively working on code, popping into IRC is strongly recommended to get
some immediate feedback. In particular, I'd like to ask that anyone making
commits to CVS be in #mediawiki at the time to respond to questions or reactions
that others may have.
* Those of us working on code for more than a day or two without it making it
into CVS should show post work patches from time to time to show our progress. A
live demo site is particularly helpful.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)