[Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability

Thu Aug 14 13:23:20 UTC 2014

Hey Yuvi,
i agree that having comments in JSON would be wonderful, but for now i
think it's better to stick to a well-known standard instead of either
using non-standardized JSON or a format that less people are familiair
with.

And obviously, it would be awesome if the list would be so good that
we could replace tools.wmflabs.org.

-- Hay

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh, and you might want to fix your toolinfo.json files, they have
>> comments. Unfortunately JSON doesn't allow that.
>
> If you're using python, you can use
> http://commentjson.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ and that'll allow
> comments :) You can also switch to a YAML parser instead - those allow
> comments, and all valid JSON is also valid YAML (And I think YAML is
> more human writeable)
>
> Awesome work, btw! I think once this reaches some sort of 'niceness'
> we should make it the default list from tools.wmflabs.org (after some
> hardening work)
> --
> Yuvi Panda T
> http://yuvi.in/blog
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