Re: [cowiki-dev] [Issue 241] New - Human readability of reference URLs

On 14 Sep 17:34, Paul Hanchett wrote:

Hi Paul,

>> [Human readability of the reference-links]

> What drives the need for this change when other requested functionality 
> is left undone?

Optic. Readbility.

> Which user has asked for the feature?

Me.

> Here are still missing features that I asked for at the beginning of this
> iteration:
> 
>    * Issue 51: Ability to upload documents and graphics for display and
>      download
>    * Issue 194: Administrative page to configure managment settings
>    * Issue 97: Diagnostic tool to check coWiki installation

> See http://www.cowiki.org/191.html.  And the new parser is still 
> inoperative. 

I (and probably nobody else except Archie) won't touch the parser, as I do
not know what exactly it is doing - now. The very first change of the "old"
parser was the full stop for me. Form then on, I could not guarantee
anything and I did not touch the parser since then, and I won't in the
future.

> Proper discipline requires that we work on the fixes and features that 
> are needed by the product, not just what is fun for us to do at the 
> moment. 

That's the point I already mentioned in a email half a year ago: I wrote,
that in open souce software, people want to change something they do not
like, but they usually are not willing to rewrite the whole thing.

They (and me) have no time change something big: Hence I gave the project to
you, in the hope you program the missed stuff and manage it - at last the
first of your changes was to change the paypal plugin ...

You got a good code base for developing it further. I personally can only
change trivia. The rest is on you.

I have sometimes spare time for _small_ changes that I can overlook and
hence ask for the changes I could make -> <http://cowiki.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=241>

If you like to have an upload of documents programmed, you should find
someone who does it, I gave you already the ideas how it could look like.
Paul, you are the maintainer, you are the man who people would expect to
program features you see as required.

Again, I am a "small light" as we call it here and want to change something
that wouln'd hurt. You are the man to program the stuff, you are the
maintainer.

regards dtg