It's not a bad thought; but I don't think it'll work for a couple of reasons: * It causes people to leave the site * GItHub for various reasons requires an account (which most likely they wont have and it doesn't seem correct to require one given our editing philosophy) * The editing interface is completely different that of the MediaWiki interface * It would most likely complicate what's already going to be a fairly complicated merge / review process.
~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroendedauw@gmail.comwrote:
Hey,
Has there been thought on how GitHub can potentially help here? I'm not sure it fits the workflow well, though can make the following observations:
- People can click an "edit" button on GH to edit the code, much like on
wiki.
- If the GH web UI is used, people do not have to install git
- They do not even need to understand git or know what it is
- A workflow only involving code in actual source control can potentially
be more streamlined and rely less on custom written solutions that also need to be maintained
- Having such code in an "easy to use" (compared to git+gerrit) system that
nevertheless provides a way to move to doing it more "professionally" might well have more people make the jump at some point
Cheers
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