MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com writes:
What do you think?
Am I missing something? The extension has serious vulnerabilities and your answer is to install it on a public wiki? I don't see how this is even remotely helpful.
The issue isn't finding people at Wikisource to try out a music module; the issue is that the extension has technical problems that need to be addressed. If people want to play around with LaTeX markup (music-related or not), there are surely a million existing venues on the Web.
The issue is not to find people who want to try out the music module. You're right: if people just want to play with laying out music, then that is a solved problem.
Bug #189 is, as far as I can tell, a request to make machine-readable musical notation available on the WMF cluster. To do this, we need developers to get interested in Lilypond or ABC enough to help us deploy the extensions.
By providing a sandbox that is being actively used, I hope to get some developers interested -- to show a community that is using their work. Hopefully we could transfer that work to the WMF cluster after development on the extension is completed.
If you have a better idea for taking something that has set dead of almost 3 years and injecting new life into it -- something more than back-n-forth on the bug or this mailing list -- I'd love to hear it.
Mark.