On ĵaŭ, 2003-01-30 at 21:20, Takuya Murata wrote:
- Quit sourceforge. Objections?
Not until everything in that bug report list is fixed! :)
We can take the CVS backup tarball and move it elsewhere if desired.
- Publishing wiki sourcecode in wiki and make it editable
just like wikipedia articles.
I don't know if this works but we can try.
Source is fragile enough that I'd be very wary of this. That, and I really do want a better editor than Mozilla when working with code. ;)
Probably the first step is publishing "language.php"s and probably sysop applies them.
The current format of those files (a bunch of arrays and a class definition in a PHP source file!) is horrible, arcane, and very very fragile. (About half the updates I get submitted to me ends up with a missing comma, an extra quotation mark, whatever, and hence syntax error. And that includes the ones I make myself!)
What we need is a human-friendly interface for editing the messages, being able to compare all or selected language versions of each one side-by-side. The ability to incrementally and safely update 99% of this stuff without waiting for a developer's intervention will be a big help for newer language sections being established.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)