[Labs-l] A proposal for better tool discoverability

Thu Aug 14 13:40:52 UTC 2014

Thanks for working on this!

I remember Andre Klapper once talking about how DOAP files
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOAP help with a related problem in a
different project (probably GNOME?) so I'm cc'ing him to ask. :)

Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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