User talk:Jeroen De Dauw/gitweb

Hugging new pet :)
Heiya,

this is an interesting idea which surely enhances/introduces the way of providing basic information about the software and the project behind to a much broader audience (=regular wiki users). This is a very important thing which we currently are missing out.

This provides an additional parser function gitweb. Hmm, I do not think the gitweb is the best name for it. I wonder if it will be possible to make this localisable as well. Would it be possible to merge this with the smwdoc parser function in order to achieve this? It would then be possible to do e.g. . However this would get out of scope of the regular localisation and internationalisation efforts provided by twn, at least with regard to the releasenotes or the roadmap.

Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 23:01, 13 August 2012 (CEST)


 * I'm afraid you're guess of how this works is off, see the docs. It's just embedding wikitext from a file in the source repo :)
 * Yes, this could be more general and not gitweb specific, but that'd require more code/work/complexity (one cannot allow arbitrary targets for security reasons), and we don't need that.
 * I'd like to have this enabled on mw.org btw (that's actually my main reason for creating it, as I ended up manually copying stuff the whole time (until I gave that up and stuff got way out of date)), any idea where to ask?
 * --Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 23:05, 13 August 2012 (CEST)


 * I was wondering where this parser function came from. Actually I realised that this is currently about embedding documentation from a source file. My comments were already wishes for the future. :) Still I do not think that the name is intuitive. What about embeddoc, devdoc or something like this? Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 23:12, 13 August 2012 (CEST)


 * The name might be opaque to people not familiar with gitweb, but I think it's pretty clear to devs, which I expect to be pretty much the only people using it.
 * --Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 23:15, 13 August 2012 (CEST)


 * Ah, ok, fair enough. Still administrators might very much want to use it too since it provides a way of making general documentation and information public to to wiki users. --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 23:21, 13 August 2012 (CEST)