If I'm not mistaken, it is totally within YOUR power to get the source code from CVS and import it into (Meta?) Wikipedia somewhere. I don't think it's a good idea, but it is possible for you to do. I think that, if you were to perform this exercise, you would see that wiki isn't very well suited for source code modification/viewing.
I understand that you want to see if it works. That's perfectly reasonable. However, you are asking other volunteers, who are already busy with other important things, to do something that, for the most part, they are not willing to do.
Jason Richey
Takuya Murata wrote:
I don't aim to discuss which one is better CVS or wiki.
First of all, again I am not so sure developing in wiki works. Some think it won't work and some (including me, only me?) think it might.
But think of the reality. Don't we need better mechanism for development? Wiki might not work I know that. But I am not sure yet.
Why don't we try? Is there any technical trouble to publish wikipedia software sourcecode? It seems to me that it is possible to publish sourcecode and some sysops apply them regularly. If it didn't yield good result, it doesn't hurt anything anyway.
Oh, maybe am I only one who believes development in wiki might work? If so, I should do that in my own.
Probably. If meta is the place only for those who are interested in development and administration, I would
like
to participate in meta.
The best place for discussion of development and
administration, the
technical aspects, is right here on wikitech-l.
What about the rest of stuff? Like documentation, testing, bug reports and so on. Sourceforge?
I understand CVS seems better than wiki. Does anyone give the opinion that the bug reports system of sourceforge is better than meta-wikipedia. If I remember, there is none. I would like to move bug reports in sourceforge to meta-wiki (gradually). Objections?
I probably am going to post more detailed documents to meta- wikipedia. (and hopefully more people will help documentation)
I know my proposal is not good enough, what else we can do to encourage more people to partipicate development? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l