On 08/08/13 13:03, Dave F. wrote:
I never quite understood the resistance to do his in the past.
I don't think there's any resistance to it, it's just not clear how practical or useful it is to do it on a large scale.
Development forums are fine for sorting out the zeros & ones, but when an update is ready for release, this forum is the logical one for the announcement. (There may be other suitable ones as well).
The problem is that the talk list has a large number of subscribers with a large number of (often diametrically opposed) beliefs, so it is hard to distill anything meaningful from the comments produced by any change that is not entirely innocuous.
Do I count the number of people in favour/against? The number of emails they manage to send (probably not...) or what? What exactly is the required quorum and what proportion of people need to be in favour or against to approve/block a change?
Basically democracy, with anything beyond a fairly small electorate, is a really bad way of developing things.
One minor query: As with Tom Hughes test page, these require a separate login, or use OpenID. I presume any edits done under these wont appear under my user name for the main web page login. Is there a way for these test pages to use my original login details?
No, because they each use their own database, which is entirely separate from the main database.
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