Last modified: 2011-12-12 20:36:06 UTC
1) Please remove Bamini typing scheme from Narayam for Tamil. It is a long way from being ready for live rollout. We were testing it in translate wiki and filing bug reports. But before fixing the open issues, it was rolled out live!!. At current state it is only about 70% correct. There is a open bug 32578 with preliminary issues list but it has not been attended to. But that is not all, there are more issues being reported by users. Users are complaining we are changing the Bamini typing standards to faulty ones (and being bugzilla noobs they dont know whom to complain to). 2) I see Tamil inscript has been enabled in translate wiki. I guess going by past behaviour you will do a live release for it too without informing us. As far as we know, no one uses Tamil inscript keyboard among wiki community. (Its usage is virtually nil among Tamil population). We dont know what bugs/issues are in it too. So dont roll it out before we can (if we can) find people to test it, file bugs and they are fixed. We are not in a race to increase the number of layouts. We are interested in providing typing layouts that actually work and are actually needed by the community. We have been repeatedly raising this point - dont roll anything out to production without proper testing.
(In reply to comment #0) > There is a open bug > 32578 with preliminary issues list but it has not been attended to. But that is > not all, there are more issues being reported by users. Users are complaining > we are changing the Bamini typing standards to faulty ones (and being bugzilla > noobs they dont know whom to complain to). 1.Correction, Bamini bug is 31904 2. Bugzilla noobs must be read as "people unaware of bugzilla, even wikipedia village pump.
Changed the title to be clear. Intention is not to have Bamini on Tamil Wikipedia untill bug free. Title was misleading to removal of layout from the extension itself. We dont bother if someone else is okay with buggy/untested version of keyboard layouts for their mediawiki instance using Narayam.
r105160 have added the feature to disable the inputmethods in beta status. I have marked Tamil Bamini and Inscript as beta status. So they will be available only in translatewiki for testing. Note that it will take around a week time to get code reviewed, deployed in WMF cluster.