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[This is a follow-up post to my previous post, "Livedocs woes".]
What is the current status of livedocs development?
My understanding is that anyone with phpdoc karma, also, once, had livedocs karma. A commit was made that some maintainers did not like, and karma was removed, and only granted to certain people (Currently: iliaa,goba,wez,derick,sfox,alan_k). Please correct me if I am wrong.
There are several outstanding issues with the livedocs code. As I said in my post, last night, HEAD seems broken. Also, Nuno has a number of patches available at http://livedocs.aborla.net/
My point? I'd like to determine the proper procedure for patching (getting patches approved for) livedocs, or find an alternative development method.
I realize that livedocs is not ready for production, as it is intended. It is, however VERY useful for doc team members (see Philip's posts re: CHANGELOG and the EXIF changes he made for a practical example).
I also understand that the original authors of livedocs don't want their code messed with. Isn't this the beauty of CVS, though?
I suspect this idea won't be well-received, but if we're not willing/able to keep livedocs HEAD up to date, could we not branch the module for testing purposes? Karma could be re-granted on a per-case basis, with the condition that non-core developers do not commit to HEAD, but to the dev branch. My understanding of the "staleness" of livedocs is that Ilia and Wez are busy on PHP 5. I understand this. People like Nuno, though, have demonstrated a knowledge of livedocs code, and should be able to contribute, IMHO. I'd also like to see livedocs tagged regularly so we can easily "rollback" to a previous version (last night, while getting livedocs running, and failing miserably, I was tempted to start pulling random dates out for cvs up -D ).
I'm not trying to point fingers, here, I'd just like to see livedocs move forward. Can we find a way to make this happen?
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