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But given the lack of development manpower, many good ideas tend to have a fairly long shelf life unfortunately. So that good ideas may be forgotten over time. | But given the lack of development manpower, many good ideas tend to have a fairly long shelf life unfortunately. So that good ideas may be forgotten over time. | ||
This is also why it is important for other developers/contributors to know who came up with a certain idea and who originally supported/supports it, possibly months (or even years) after a discussion took place - which is why good ideas should not just be preserved, but accompanied by corresponding quotes, linking back to the original discussion, so that potential contributors can make up their own minds to determine if/how they want to get involved in some effort or not. The script that you can find below is intended to help with this - it allows people to easily copy&paste important discussions over to the wiki, without having to rewrite any text, and without having to put together proper cquotes manually. In fact, it's a matter of just a few seconds.}} | This is also why it is important for other developers/contributors to know who came up with a certain idea and who originally supported/supports it, possibly months (or even years) after a discussion took place - which is why good ideas should not just be preserved, but accompanied by corresponding quotes, linking back to the original discussion, so that potential contributors can make up their own minds to determine if/how they want to get involved in some effort or not. The script that you can find below is intended to help with this (as well as allowing people to easily reuse forum/devel list announcements in wiki articles, e.g. to update the changelog, newsletter or "release plan/lessons learnt" section) - it allows people to easily copy&paste important discussions over to the wiki, without having to rewrite any text, and without having to put together proper cquotes manually. In fact, it's a matter of just a few seconds. | ||
Use this article's discussion page to get in touch (e.g. if there are any bugs/problems or features requests).}} | |||
== Background & Installation == | == Background & Installation == | ||