It's not a bad thought; but I don't think it'll work for a couple of reasons: * It causes people to leave the site * GItHub for various reasons requires an account (which most likely they wont have and it doesn't seem correct to require one given our editing philosophy) * The editing interface is completely different that of the MediaWiki interface * It would most likely complicate what's already going to be a fairly complicated merge / review process.
~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey, > > Has there been thought on how GitHub can potentially help here? I'm not > sure it fits the workflow well, though can make the following observations: > > * People can click an "edit" button on GH to edit the code, much like on > wiki. > * If the GH web UI is used, people do not have to install git > * They do not even need to understand git or know what it is > * A workflow only involving code in actual source control can potentially > be more streamlined and rely less on custom written solutions that also > need to be maintained > * Having such code in an "easy to use" (compared to git+gerrit) system that > nevertheless provides a way to move to doing it more "professionally" might > well have more people make the jump at some point > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw > http://www.bn2vs.com > Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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
