Wikipedia:Database reports/Redesign

Some notes about redesigning the database reports project.

Goals

 * allow on-wiki localization of report description text and table headers
 * need to be sure that localization doesn't break "data as of" magic (or that magic needs to be re-implemented)
 * this means better abstraction in the code and some template magic, presumably
 * allow on-wiki customization of link formatting and output (appending edit/hist/etc. links); this is already somewhat done with dbr link
 * shared functions in a dbr module
 * calculate_replag
 * post_results &mdash; for single pages
 * post_paginated_results &mdash; for paginated results
 * switch to use cronsub &mdash; svick has already started on this
 * licensing
 * strongly in favor of making all of this PD; not enough creativity in any of this anyway
 * single AUTHORS file
 * clean up shebang in the files to use generic Python instead of 2.5?
 * switch to a multi-maintainer project/tool on the Toolserver
 * people who should have access:
 * svick
 * mzmcbride
 * dispenser
 * bjweeks
 * tim1357
 * need to pick a name, "reports" is already taken