[Bf-docboard] Re: Bf-docboard Digest, Vol 22, Issue 2

[Ewout Fernhout]

Hello,
I must say I disagree with spiderworms attitude on the talk page; he
thinks it's too much work and if we end up with a fork, that will make
updating a lot harder. I think however, that (after we have updated to
1.6.3, currently we're still on 1.5.2!) MediaWiki is stable and mature
enough to 'risk' this. On the other hand, a fork is not really
necessairy and even if so, if we document our changes well enough
(they are more likely additions than changes, which makes it even
easier), updating shouldn't be too hard.
Also, the benefits are very clear and imo have more priority than
having the latest version of MediaWiki, our admins have been slacking
with updates anyway :o)

I will react on the talk page later!

Ewout

On 5/2/06, Alastair Mason <alabandit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> greetings
> theres a little more on the chat page, may help.
>
>
> On 5/2/06, Ewout Fernhout <chocolade at extrapuur.nl> wrote:
> >
> Hello Summit Datta,
> First of all, thanks for your interest! The page you refer to is
> currently the only information available, but it's open for
> discussion. I do invite everyone to come up with more ideas on how to
> solve the problems that I identified, but if you see other important
> problems, please add! That's what it's a wiki for :o)
>
> If more people express their interest, we can make it a group effort.
> Also, Ton said that if we cannot solve a problem, the BF can pay a
> professional to do that part - but of course we should first try to
> solve it ourselves (just so you know we're not alone in this).
>
> I would gladly answer any questions!
>
> Ewout
>
> On 5/2/06, Sumit Datta <sumitdatta at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am a PHP coder and would like to help on the customizations of
> > MediaWiki. I am a student from India and am a PHP/MySQL developer. I
> > work on OSS projects whenever I can. I have an exam in the month of
> > May (around 25th May) and before that I have college projects, so I
> > will not be able to help before that time, but I can surely try and
> > understand the needs in more details and get questions cleared out
> > before I start coding.
> > I am going through
> >
> http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta/MediaWiki_optimised_for_manuals
> > and any extra information you can send me will he helpful. right now I
> > am also concentrating on SoC 2006.
> > Thanks,
>  > Cheers!
> > -----------------
> > Sumit Datta