https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32594
--- Comment #3 from Van de Bugger <van.de.bug...@gmail.com> 2012-02-14 17:43:49 UTC --- Guys, I spend noticeable part of my life hunting for the bugs in software. I *know* -- good error messages and warnings are REALLY NECESSARY! Look into the case again: [[Corresponds to::0.001 km]] It looks perfect! Trouble appears in another page. It was PHP exception before, not to good, but at least it was the obvious signal that something goes wrong. Now you *silently* ignore it, so users will spend hours trying to understand why `Corresponds to' DOES NOT WORK. They will be frustrated, they will apply for help, send messages to Semediawiki-user, and other people will spend time again... Why? Ok, why do you show warnings if property value is invalid? For example: [[Coordinates::foo]] (where property `Coordinates' is of type `Geographic coordinate') will show small yellow triangle with exclamation sing and bubble "Failed to parse geographic coordinate: foo"? This is exactly the same case! User set property `Corresponds to' to value which is not understood. Why invalid value of `Coordinates' property shows warning, but `Corresponds to' -- does not? If you think it is not really necessary, let us drop all the warnings. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
