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?
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