Rob Church schreef:
On 23/01/07, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Basic stuff that does not get done? To me the fact that all Marathi projects are doing the localisation for EVERY of their project is extremely basic. This is something that can be fixed. And if I can help
Yes, I agree; in fact, if you'd been in the #mediawiki IRC channel within the first few days of this month, you would have noticed I mentioned something about, "it would be great if we had regular updates for *every* language by the end of the year."
Great to know that more people feel strongly about this.. :)
The next thing to consider is what has priority, the continued unabated rush to get new functions in, or is it wise to stop including such functionality until some of the projects that /are /prioritised by the
People work on what interests them. Would you reject new functionality and piss off your volunteer coders, or would you rather say, "hey, cool...now, do you reckon you could...?"
Why reject new functionality? That is NOT what I want to see happen. Not at all. What I want to see happen is that certain things come to conclusion. It is awful when because some developer made something that is pretty things that are basic functionality have to wait. I would not reject new functionality, I would give it its priority and this means that it will gets assessed and implemented at the appropriate time. The problem is that Brion does not scale and neither does Tim.
WMF become a reality. If this means that Brion does not do anything but SUL for a month on new functionality until SUL gets done, it would be in your interest to help him in order to get your stuff in production.
Actually, if I'm blunt; I have little or no interest in single user login. And it's not in my interest to do anything I don't want to do, which is why I asked the question, "Is Wikimedia going to pay me for it?" Unless there's a fat cheque coming my way, I'm not going to even consider it, because if I were to put a foot out of line and make a mistake while doing it, I'd probably be ripped to shreds.
There are plenty of other BASIC things that need doing. Getting the Marathi localisation from the Marathi Wikipedia is just one. As you agree that getting the localisation for all our languages having regular updates, it needs some work to get the language files for ALL languages a language file and make sure that the procedure for new languages includes the creation of a language file. It makes the ground fertile for when Brion has the time to check out the BetaWiki software.
Thanks, GerardM