On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I imagine this is referring to bug 6455,[1] during which someone created/improved[2] Extension:StringFunctions and then got (parts of?) it merged into Extension:ParserFunctions. But none of that was accepted for deployment on WMF wikis, in favor of something like Scribunto (active development of which began about a year after the merge into ParserFunctions). [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6455 [2]: I'm not sure which. _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
