Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If folks work with us rather than fight with us, we'll get things done >>> faster, together. >> I haven't seen evidence that any such correlation exists in >> WMF software development. On the contrary, contested fea- >> tures were finished on time against considerable opposition, >> while for example the community invested much energy in >> string manipulation functions and had to wait years for Lua >> to come along.
> Sorry. But strictly speaking. Staff said for ages that string functions > wouldn't be enabled on the cluster. > Community "investing" in string functions when it's said they won't be > enabled on the cluster sounds more like fighting with WMF than working > with them. You can manipulate strings on the cluster *now*, so either staff was wrong or you misunderstood something. Tim _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
