Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities

Peter Cowburn wrote:

> On 19 March 2015 at 10:56, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 19, 2015 5:39 PM, "Peter Cowburn" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 18 March 2015 at 01:30, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Now, to be able to actually implement the little technical measure to
>>>> ensure that everyone follows the same rules, I ask you one more time
>>>> to provide the data of the current wiki so patches, changes etc can be
>>>> implemented in a safer way. You know where to reach me to provide it.
>>>> Thanks for your cooperation.
>>>
>>> It sounds like you want to work on the wiki, great!
>>
>>> However, I don't really understand why you need "the data of the current
>> wiki". Could you elaborate a little on why you need that, rather than
>> running your own local wiki copy with your own pages, etc.?
>>
>> To valid changes with existing data, especially in the RFCs, votes and
>> related codes.
>>
>> It takes time to create prod-like data and be sure everything works fine.
>
> It takes 5 minutes to copy a few pages' content from the production wiki.
>  5 more to set up users/admin access in your dev wiki.
> 
> Then you're ready to run through whatever you're looking at doing:
> simulating some votes, improving the registration process, improving the
> patch vs plugin problem, ...
> 
> Surely that's better than waiting (more than a year!!) for someone to
> needlessly (IMO) deliver you a copy of the files from production?

If no sample data will be provided when asking on this mailing list,
line 14-16 of README.CONFIGURE[1] should better be fixed accordingly. :)

[1]
<http://git.php.net/?p=web/wiki.git;a=blob;f=docs/README.CONFIGURE;hb=HEAD>

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Christoph M. Becker