There won't be anything to test until the rewrite is done since it's still undergoing major changes. There's no point in deploying code and testing for it if that code will change drastically in a few months.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > 2011/5/29 MZMcBride <[email protected]>: > > HW wrote: > >> As of a member of Chinese Wikipedia community, we have submitted a bug > >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29114 on requestion for > adding > >> LQT to Chinese Wikipedia. However, it seems that it is on hold. Due to a > large > >> amount of comment on Chinese Wikipedia Village Pump, we need it as soon > as > >> possible. When will it be enable? Or, need to wait for central action? > > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads/Status > > Thank you for the link. > > This page says in the end: "Production deployment of LiquidThreads > with its improved backend to all Wikimedia wikis using LiquidThreads. > Timeline: Before Wikimania, August 2." > > Putting Wikimania as a target date is very nice, because Wikimania and > the hackathon that preceeds it will happen in a country that speaks > Hebrew and Arabic - right-to-left languages. If the new LQT will be > deployed before Wikimania only to wikis that use LQT now, this means > that until Wikimania, LQT will not be tested by right-to-left language > users on right-to-left language wikis. > > And so this will become a missed opportunity. If a development version > of LQT will be tested on an RTL wiki before Wikimania, the RTL bugs > will be already known before the beginning of the hackathon and would > be easily fixed during it with the help of Israeli developers that > will be present in Haifa. If it won't be tested before Wikimania, > fixing these RTL bugs will be much, much harder. > > And so i repeat my request: Please install LQT on the Hebrew Wikinews > and on other wikis whose users offer their help in testing. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- John _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
