The comment about WMF labs makes me want to kill kittens. Pywikipedia supports a lot of other projects besides the WMF. Your POV lacks perspective.
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, Tom wrote: > For what it's worth. I was ready to give up on Git with php dev until I > started using the IDE, Eclipse, as my "local" version control of my repo > with the Git plugin. IMO, the interface of Git for windows is garbage and > the syntax isn't as user friendly or intuitive as it could be. I > uninstalled it completely. From Eclipse, I can push and pull to my own Git > repo and fetch all the upstream changes to forks in my repo. > > Eclipse makes it so much easier to understand what's going on in the > background, fork, branch and apply patches. Plus you can revert local > changes simply. > > I'm not developing in Python, just a pywikiapedia bot user but I think > there's a plugin for Python Dev in Eclipse. Might be a better IDE to use. > > Tom > > > On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Amir Ladsgroup > > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > >> On 10/1/13, Jan Dudík <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> I still don't understand, why was abandoned SVN and is there some git > >> instead. > > Git despite being pain in the ass sometimes because of complexity is a > > pretty damn good version control system > > > >> In svn times when there was some critical problem, usually was patch > after > >> some hours. One person wrote it, submited it and other users can > download > >> and use. > >> > >> now there was critical bug with interwiki.py, which happened about 15th > >> september. In these days was old sourceforge tracker moved to bugzilla, > so > >> report was lost somewhere. After ten days I reported this bug again[1]. > >> Three days later there was patch, but we had to wait one week more when > >> another developer rewieved this patch. > > Sorry not to see your bug, I sent the correcting patch like five hours > > later after I saw it > > > >> now there are hundrets of new unconnected articles in wiktionaries, > >> wikiquotes, wikinews... > >> > >> In the meantime there was some diff, from which was possible to patch > >> manually scripts [2], but not in plaintext, with tabs instead of spaces; > >> and nowhere was complete patched file to download. > > you can do it in linux (and zip it and use it in windows) for example > > for my patch it's > > "git fetch ssh://[email protected]:29418/pywikibot/compat > > refs/changes/47/86047/3 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD" > > Just copy the "download" tab in the change page > >> The second problem is git: some people on IRC said, that there were many > >> people in Hackathon who weren't able to instal git correctly - and all > of > >> them have PC with Windows - and it were about 80% of people with > windows. > >> Is somewhere *simple manual* how to install and run git updates on > windows? > >> or is somewhere *simple manual* how to use svn again? > >> and is somewhere possibility do download certain file from bot? now > there > >> are only nightly dumps, which overwrites my changes in files when I > want to > >> unpack it... > > NO! people hadn't issue with git (because we provided files in flash > > drives), main problem was BS. > > IMHO people should run bots in WMF Labs, not their home PC, and high > > proportion of bot operators are doing what is correct in my opinion. > > NO! there is a very long and simple manual in here: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Installation > > > > > >> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54480 > >> [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/86047/3/wikipedia.py > >> > >> JAnD > > > > Best > > -- > > Amir > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >
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