Hi Russell, Russell Blau schreef: > I am at a point where it would be helpful to have some feedback from other > Pywikipedia users about the future of the rewrite branch. As those who > watch the SVN commits know, I have not had as much time to work on this > lately, and have to prioritize what time I do spend on it. > > For those who have used the rewrite branch, what (if anything) needs to be > done to it to get you to use it exclusively and retire the old wikipedia.py > system? What is missing? What is broken? What is present but could be > improved? > The main reason I use the current branch and not the rewrite branch is that the current branch just works. I run bots to get stuff done and last time I tried the rewrite branch didn't work. > For those who have chosen not to use the rewrite branch, why not? What > might lead you to take another look? > If you say rewrite is stable, I'll give it another try. > And then, I'm sure there are many whose reaction to this post has been, > "What's the rewrite branch?" I don't know what to ask you, so feel free to > move on to the next message. > > Most critically, is there any reason to continue development of the trunk > once the rewrite branch is at a point where most users are ready to switch > to it? > Before we get there the user programs need to be converted and restructured. I think most current commandline programs should be split up in a script part and one of more lib parts.
Maarten > -- Russ > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
