Re: [SMW-devel] [Semediawiki-user] [News] Timeline moves from SMW to SRF

[Markus K. <ma...@se...>]

On Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2008, Samuel Richardson wrote:
> Hi Markus,
>
> This sounds excellent, I take it that Google Maps would utilise the same
> framework if it gets added?

Yes, SRF is really meant as a handy collection of added formats with diverse 
maintainers, so Google Maps would fit well. The idea was to have a single 
extension instead of one for each format. The extension has a simple way to 
decide which formats to enable during setup, so it's not "all or nothing".

We will also try to provide synchronised file releases of SRF with SMW, so 
it's also a way to promote formats that might otherwise not be noticed. 
Extensions that are more than just formats should of course still be 
maintained in separate projects.

Denny is the principal maintainer of SRF, so it's best to drop him a line when 
a new format should be added/moved in.

Regards,

Markus

>
> Thanks,
>
> Samuel Richardson
> Freelance Web Developer
> www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748
>
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>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Markus Krötzsch <
>
> ma...@se...> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > as announced earlier, SMW has established a separate extension "Semantic
> > Result Formats" (SRF) for collecting useful additional printout formats
> > for queries [1]. The idea is that complex formats that are not maintained
> > as the
> > core of SMW are separated, yet easy to install.
> >
> > The popular "timeline" format now has been moved from SMW to SRF. SMW 1.4
> > will
> > be the first release where this is effective, and users using timeline
> > (or "eventline") will have to install SRF to continue using it. There
> > will be
> > an accompanying release of SRF to simplify this; installation is really
> > easy
> > and no changes on the wiki pages are required.
> >
> > The reason for the move is that timeline is rather heavy (lots of
> > JavaScript)
> > for SMW core. It also includes a lot of code that is not maintained by
> > the SMW Project. Further useful formats will be added to SRF over time.
> > So it is
> > mostly an organisational change, but also an effort to make SMW yet more
> > configurable for user needs.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Markus
> >
> > [1]
> >
> > http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SemanticResul
> >tFormats
> >
> > --
> > Markus Krötzsch
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