[Foundation-l] Re: Article on LISA

Sat Jun 18 07:27:42 UTC 2005

Brion:
> If the project ever actually makes it as far as having some software, of
> course it would be publicly tested first. So far as I know no code has
> been written

I'm actively working on it, though of course I'm not going to commit 
something incomplete to CVS. It will still be a while until we get from 
where we are to a working implementation (I'll post an updated timetable 
on Meta soon). This is a very large project and I want to get it right 
instead of hacking together some simplistic template-based solution over 
a weekend. It needs to be flexible and scalable beyond UW itself.

So, personally, I think a discussion about the usefulness of UW is at 
this point a bit premature, as the development has been funded and is 
underway, and the decision about whether we want to do this should be 
made when people have had a chance to look at a working prototype and 
comment on it.

There will be no automatism; just because someone develops something, 
it's not necessarily going to be used or even accepted into MediaWiki 
itself. Gerard's article is a solid presentation of his view on where we 
are going to take this, which I share, but it should be self-evident 
that this can only happen with the approval and support of the community.

Best,

Erik