https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40251

Siebrand <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #18 from Siebrand <[email protected]> 2012-09-17 01:27:25 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> It boggles the mind that someone just made a breaking change in one of the
> most-used magic functions without bothering to ask for the opinion for
> translators or even notifying them afterwards. Are there no communication
> protocols in place at WMF at all? This is not the first time that users have 
> to
> find out from obscure bug reports or commit summaries that they are supposed 
> to
> use something differently.

Hold your horses[1], Tisza. We are in the business of improving software, and
in that process, an intended improvement (in this case using upstream
standardised plural definitions over manually maintained ones for both PHP and
JavaScript in MediaWiki only), had an unintended side effect. Tests were
added[2] on the initial change, but as no test was present for this particular
case, this particular breakage went unnoticed.

Luckily we have very well educated users who will report and issue -- this bug
report is proof of that --  and a very responsive internationalisation
development team, that has created a fix within 20 hours of the report being
made. Gerrit 23900 has now been merged, including a test, so that future
breakage will be prevented.

A final note: Our software will keep breaking as we continue to improve it.
It's not done on purpose, but it's part of the process.

-- 
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
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l

Reply via email to