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Hi Thomas,
I talked to Brion & Co on IRC about Enotif some time ago.

Can you tell me, why enotif is not part of the official codebase? Is
this planned for future mediawiki versions? I heard some rumours that
there are doubts if this patch is really suitable for a production wiki...

Gruß, Thommie
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:41:32PM +0100, Thomas Rother wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> I talked to Brion & Co on IRC about Enotif some time ago.
>
> Can you tell me, why enotif is not part of the official codebase? Is
> this planned for future mediawiki versions? I heard some rumours that
> there are doubts if this patch is really suitable for a production wiki...
>

i think this question has already been discussed here, but can i extend
those questions to wikitex too?

-Riba

On Nov 5, 2004, at 3:41 AM, Thomas Rother wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> I talked to Brion & Co on IRC about Enotif some time ago.
>
> Can you tell me, why enotif is not part of the official codebase?

a) It's not done yet; while Tom has a more or less working patch there
are still a number of code & localization maintainability issues with
it.

b) Since it requires database format changes, it definitely will not
ever be included in a 1.3 bugfix release. It may be included in the
upcoming 1.4 major release once remaining issues are sorted out.

c) Since change notification is a generalizable issue, it would be
preferable to rework it to use generic extension hooks: this means
reworking it so that some backend parts go into the main distribution,
and some parts might be provided as a drop-in extension package. Among
other things the preferences form needs to be reworked to allow
extensions to add fields easily.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Nov 5, 2004, at 4:59 AM, Ribamar Santarosa de Sousa wrote:
> i think this question has already been discussed here, but can i extend
> those questions to wikitex too?

WikiTex is a plug-in extension.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:29:42AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2004, at 4:59 AM, Ribamar Santarosa de Sousa wrote:
> >i think this question has already been discussed here, but can i extend
> >those questions to wikitex too?
>
> WikiTex is a plug-in extension.
>
ok, but i meant : "will be wikitex part of mediawiki official
distribution?"...