[Phpwiki-talk] Updates with WikiLens code ?

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

Reini,

I'd send you this personally, but you like me to email phpwiki-talk, so 
here goes.

WikiLens has been drifting farther and farther from PhpWiki code. 
However, I'd love to contribute the code back into PhpWiki! There are 
several issues, tho. I'd appreciate your advice.

1. I'd be happy to apply changes myself, and I have the SourceForge 
permissions, but I don't want to make changes you don't approve of. This 
leaves me in the position of trying to get approval, so I am less 
inclined to change the code. Would it make sense if we just went ahead 
and started making changes, and allowed you to reverse what you thought 
was very bad?

2. My plan was to take 1.3.11, integrate its changes into WikiLens code, 
then take the merged stuff from our codebase and submit it back. 
However, 1.3.11 has been delayed for a LONG time. I am unwilling to 
integrate in-between releases because I fear the code might be unstable, 
so we are in a holding pattern.

3. We are sorely tempted to add a database table every now and then. For 
example, we are considering putting category links in their own table 
instead of making them page links, to try to solve 2 issues: a) 
unintentional category membership (by refering to a page, but not 
wanting it to be a category reference, with all that means); b) naive 
users deleting the category membership.

We've fixed bugs (from our point of view) in PhpWiki. I submitted some 
patches (e.g., 994497), but it is extra effort to do so. Therefore, 
we've fixed bugs I haven't submitted patches for.

We've added features. For example, we have a CreatePage plugin that 
allows you to import Amazon books with structured information, we have a 
new login process that we feel is smoother. I bet we have lots of other 
features as well that I've forgotten to detail.

Thoughts welcome.

Dan