Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-25 Thread rupert THURNER
Petr, do you think it would be an option to use git version control as a storage format instead of openzim? Which would facilitate edit and merge back changes? Rupert On Jan 23, 2015 11:59 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I know most of you hate reinventing a wheel so I first

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-25 Thread Petr Bena
I don't really know, it is technically possible but probably not suitable. I don't want to create offline wiki. Just a reader of a wiki, so no complex versioning is required for that. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:00 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Petr, do you think it would be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sane versioning for core (was: Re: Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?)

2015-01-25 Thread Nikolas Everett
+1 for something like this. Its not a huge problem not to do semver but it'd be simpler to explain if we did. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/15/2015 08:26 PM, Chad wrote: I've been saying for over a year now we should just drop the 1. from

[Wikitech-l] Sane versioning for core (was: Re: Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?)

2015-01-25 Thread Legoktm
On 01/15/2015 08:26 PM, Chad wrote: I've been saying for over a year now we should just drop the 1. from the 1.x.y release versions. So the next release would be 25.0, 26.0, etc etc. +1, let's do this. It would allow us to follow semver and still retain our current version number history

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-25 Thread rupert THURNER
The storage format is very efficient and there is a c library for it : https://libgit2.github.com It should be not necessary to create complex versioning around it. You plan to store html or wikitext? Rupert On Jan 25, 2015 6:37 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really know, it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Idea for new desktop / mobile kiwix like application

2015-01-25 Thread Petr Bena
Either only wikitext or both, at least until I would get some wikitext to html convertor lib On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:41 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: The storage format is very efficient and there is a c library for it : https://libgit2.github.com It should be not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sane versioning for core (was: Re: Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?)

2015-01-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/15/2015 08:26 PM, Chad wrote: I've been saying for over a year now we should just drop the 1. from the 1.x.y release versions. So the next release would be 25.0, 26.0, etc etc. -1 from me, for what little that's

[Wikitech-l] [RfC] Improving extension dependency management and versioning

2015-01-25 Thread Legoktm
Hi! I've written up an RfC[1] discussing the pain points for managing extensions and suggestions on how to improve it. Comments and feedback appreciated! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Improving_extension_management -- Legoktm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sane versioning for core

2015-01-25 Thread Legoktm
On 01/25/2015 06:04 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/15/2015 08:26 PM, Chad wrote: I've been saying for over a year now we should just drop the 1. from the 1.x.y release versions. So the next release would be 25.0, 26.0,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sane versioning for core

2015-01-25 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-01-25 6:04 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/15/2015 08:26 PM, Chad wrote: I've been saying for over a year now we should just drop the 1. from the 1.x.y release versions. So the next release would be 25.0, 26.0,