----- Yury Katkov
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > I think Yury has a point. Now would be a good time to maybe discuss exactly > what's going on. As exciting a feature it may be, we cannot just "deploy > next week" and then have "the schedule for deployment not yet decided". > Stuff like this should have a legitimate plan. Furthermore, in alignment > with the previous thread on feature development, is there any hard > discussion on enwiki, etc. showing the users want this feature? I know sure > as hell that I'd love using this feature, but I don't represent all > template developers everywhere. > > Some good questions we should probably answer (if they haven't been > answered already): > > - Is Extension:Lua the extension being deployed? If so, why is it still > in Subversion and why is it marked experimental? as far as I can see this extensions have been deployed : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto , not this one: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lua > - What QA has been done on this extension? How many test cases have been > implemented? > - What are the performance impacts of using this v. regular parser > functions? (Also, what is faster, PECL or external interpreter?) > - Do global variables persist outside of an individual script, i.e., can > one global variable be used in multiple <lua> tags in the same template? > - Has there been any consideration of implementing a "standard library"? > For example, functions that will allow the creation of wikitables and other > mediawiki syntax. > - What values for the various wgLuaMax* variables are we planning on > using on WMF wikis? Has there been testing done to determine what a > reasonable maximum call time is? > > I probably should have looked into this more earlier, but it's been a busy > week for me and I haven't had much time. > > *--* > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 > Major in Computer Science > www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Tobias > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 08/22/2012 12:18 PM, Tim Starling wrote: >> > So my inclination is to push for deployment with a minimum of >> > additional development work. But I'm not the target audience; my >> > inclinations have to be weighed against the needs of the users. >> >> in the name of countless Wikipedians, who are struggeling with that >> horrible Template/Magic word/ParserFunctions syntax, I say: thank you :) >> >> This page is dedicated to its victims: >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Church_of_emacs/Template_love >> >> Cheers, >> Tobias >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
