https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37992
--- Comment #26 from Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> 2012-09-17 02:41:21 UTC --- (In reply to comment #25 by Risker) > For the record, I'd strongly urge that the first response to any Bugzilla that > will result in a change to the UI should be "Please point me to the community > discussion that recommends this change." I'm not sure why the WMF would be > investing 20% of an engineer's time without any evidence that [multiple] > communities are interested in activating an extension. There are plenty of > extensions around that, simply put, aren't used because they're unwanted or > have a negative impact on a project. Unexpected and undiscussed UI changes > have repeatedly caused significant discord between communities and > Engineering. Thanks for the comment, Risker, and thanks to everyone in this thread for all your comments. I'm sorry; this problem is at least partially my fault. Just before my vacation this summer, I asked for some help maintaining the review queue (for new extensions to potentially be deployed on WMF sites: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue ). The Drafts extension got added to this list, and in late August I accidentally went straight into requesting code review/improvements from Trevor, using his "20%" time ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_20%25_policy ) . Per our procedures at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment#Design_review , I should have instead gotten Drafts a design review first, from our product management or design team. As the "design review" procedure says, "This will start a conversation about the design of your feature, which should include community consensus on the wiki where the extension would be deployed." The design team is currently discussing Drafts on the design mailing list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2012-September/thread.html#130 and I will update that list, Trevor, and the review queue to ask for that design review. Thanks, and my apologies again. -- 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
