Hi, Am Dienstag, den 11.06.2013, 10:46 +0200 schrieb Dirk Hünniger: > I don't feel like discussing with them. I attempted several times. In > particular the devoloper of Contributors php knows that I am using > Contributors.php is this way. Its very unlikely that they will make it > more stable. Toolserver is the place where all unstable code of > Wikipedia and friends runs.I can make some heuristics like try with 10 > seconds timeout ten seconds ten times, which produces good results. I > also can get the list of contributors directly from the mediawikiserver > processing the version history with my own html parser, which is the > same parser as I use for articles. I also tried processing with an xml > parser but this failed since mediawikis results are not always well > formatted. Today I feel quite tired an I don't really feel like > implementing the way using the version history right now, although this > is the most right way of doing it I can think out. I might still I might > do sooner or later, but I don't know when. Also Pierre Neidhards will > very likely switch the repo form SVN to GIT in the next few days. So it > will take time until I can resolve that. sounds frustrating. So how sever do you think this problem is: Would you still consider mediawiki2latex a generally useful and stable tool that should be shipped with Debian, or is this a show-stopper? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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