Re: Voting irregularities

Peter Cowburn wrote: > On 19 March 2015 at 10:56, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mar 19, 2015 5:39 PM, "Peter Cowburn" <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 18 March 2015 at 01:30, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> 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> -- Christoph M. Becker