I've taken to the less lazy tactic of making postings to the mailing
list hoping someone else who is better at writing will do the
documentation ;).
Hmmm... maybe I missed one. Is my feature of the {{{#}}} variable in
#ask templates documented?
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I came across the "hidden feature" of random sorting again today when I
> cleaned up the related code and fixed various issues that it still had. It
> was
> impossible to disable this performance-critical feature in SMW, although a
> global variable had been introduced for that purpose (it was never used)!
>
> I traced back the code and found that it had been committed based on a patch
> that was submitted to Bugzilla (not blaming anyone here, the committer may
> even have notified one of us core devs to check the code ...). Obviously, the
> code was not properly reviewed or tested, and the feature was not documented
> until recently. We should really try to avoid such cases in the future.
> Especially, any Bugzilla patch should be reviewed by a developer who is
> familiar with the affected code before being committed. I know that it can be
> tempting: someone offers a patch for adding a long-wanted feature, and it is
> so easy to just commit it without further ado -- unfortunately we need to
> resist this kind of temptation ;-).
>
> Since we are heading toward SMW 1.5, I would also like to ask all SMW-
> committers to double-check that all new features that you committed in the
> past months are mentioned in the file RELEASE-NOTES, and documented on
> semantic-mediawiki.org. It is really a pity if useful features go unnoticed
> simply because we forget to go that final mile of documenting them properly.
>
> Thanks for your support,
>
> Markus
>
>
> On Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009, Philipp Zaltenbach wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have updated the documentation at semantic-mediawiki.org. See
>> * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries#Sorting_results
>> * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Configuration#Query_settings
>>
>> It would be nice if anyone could double check.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Philipp
>>
>> Patrick Nagel schrieb:
>>
>>> Hi Alex,
>>>
>>> On 2009-12-11 01:38 UTC Alex Kozak wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if there is a way to do a random sort in #ask queries
>>>> (maybe with something like order=random), and if not, if anyone has any
>>>> ideas on how to accomplish this (sanely) with templates and parsers?
>>>>
>>> Did you try 'order=random'? It should work in current versions, but for
>>> an unknown reason it's currently not documented on
>>> semantic-mediawiki.org.
>>>
>>> See http://old.nabble.com/Random-Sort-in-SMW-1.4-td20670044.html
>>>
>>> Patrick.
>>>
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