On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < [email protected]> wrote:
> > If you mean https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Banana-checker I don't know > the story behind that one! > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Naming_things is hard. > > Banana-checker is a linter that "checks" the validity and quality of our localisation files. This file format originally didn't have a name and was just part of MediaWiki core. In 2012, a second implementation was created by jQuery.i18n, as part of Project Milkshake. [1][2] In 2014, when James worked on creating a Grunt.js-based validator for these files, we retroactively named the format "Banana" (in line with the Milkshake theme), and the validator "Banana-checker". -- Krinkle [1] https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n#readme [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Milkshake [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
