Not to butt too violently into this discussion, but...
I am pretty much ecstatic about everything that Mr. Manske has been working on in the last few weeks. Even if it's never accepted into the core codebase, as someone who's running his own wiki, just having some code that's marginally-official or at least run by this mailing list, to implement features I could really use, is fantastic.
Reviews? Great! Stable versions as an extension? Even better! The Tasks stuff is also tremendous..
I'm really looking forward to getting back to work after the New Year and getting a bunch of this stuff integrated. Maybe it's not the final solution - that's fine, I know how to use merge tools and if I have to I can write a converter to move my data over. I'm more concerned about reasonably solid code that people other than me are writing.
So from the perspective of an outside guy trying to run a site on MediaWiki - awesome job all around, I love seeing useful code being released often. Magnus' stuff is good, and it builds on a lot of cool work by many talented people.
I'm sure that there's plenty of activity relating to this discussion that I am not privy to, and I realize that the core mission for most people on this mailing list revolves around keeping the wikipedia family of sites happily up and running, but I don't want to let this discussion go by without tossing in my two cents as an outside user and say - I like seeing progress, I like the features I've seen go by recently, and I like MediaWiki as a whole.
I hope this whole conversation comes to a fruitful resolution, and that MW maintains its forward motion.
Thanks for reading. I'll go back to lurking now. :)
Ben Garney Torque Technologies Director GarageGames.Com, Inc.
Magnus Manske wrote:
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 23:46, Brion Vibber wrote:
Magnus, are you working with Tim on this or are you just writing code that's going to be thrown away next week?