[jbovlaste] Re: jbovlaste erroneously states original creator as the person who edited a definition

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:45:24AM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@yahoo.de> wrote:
> > > i just edited two or three definitions by ott and in the
> > > recent changes list it says "definition update by ott".
> >
> > I noticed that too when editing your definitions ;). I agree
> > that this behaviour is incorrect and confusing and should be
> > changed. My suggestion is to use a revision controll system and
> > a plain text storage for the text, so we wouldn't need the web
> > interface (which is a bit buggy and has a slow insertion
> > procedure). I vote for git, mercurial or darcs.
> 
> Do you want the Lojban language to not be developed by people who
> don't know what that is? Or will you write the documentation that
> will introduce them to it?

He means a private repository; just because something is in git
doesn't mean everyone knows where it is or can access it.

-Robin

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