https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41246

Quim Gil <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #24 from Quim Gil <[email protected]> ---
pirate, some people like Bartosz are putting plenty of volunteering hours to
maintain the software you use freely and for free. I understand you miss a
feature that has been removed, but you must also understand that such feature
was in the way of other fixes that the maintainer applied. Software
architecture is like... architecture: you can't just add floors and windows
without taking other elements into consideration.

From the point of view of the maintainers this discussion is not about
BlueCologne. Among the MediaWiki skins supported in Wikimedia sites, no one
supports Quick Bar to float left or right. Users of the default Vector skin
don't have this feature either.

What now? In a collaborative, open source project the only sensible option for
a user like you is to open an enhancement request, find other users with a
common interest, argument and lobby for it. Convince a developer to propose an
implementation that would work, and to work on it. As other have explained,
this developer can be anybody, not necessarily the maintainers.

Not easy? I agree. But it's not easy for a volunteer maintainer to support
several skins, catching up with the platform's new and deprecated features and
with the different expectations of hundreds of users reporting problems just
like you.

Thank you for your understanding. I'm going to re-establish the WONTFIX
resolution of the maintainer. Please don't reopen this report again. Instead,
open a new enhancement request. Thank you.


(In reply to comment #10)
> @pirate (flypie):
> 
> "Open Source" is not the same as "the developers must do my bidding."
> Everyone
> here wants to help, but no one else has any obligation to fix the issues you
> want fixed. Therefore, you should not act as if you expect someone to fix an
> issue by a particular date, or just because you disagree with a decision made
> by someone. Aggressive or repeated demands will not be received well and
> almost
> certainly diminish the impact and interest in your suggestions.
> 
> In this case, the developer explained his reasons for the code change in a
> neutral tone. Whether you agree or not on his reasons, personal attacks like
> "very inexperienced" or "idiotic" are not tolerable here.
> Please stick to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_policy
> (especially the section "Treat other people with respect") in case you want
> to
> continue being active in this Bugzilla.
> Again, you are free to discuss and question decisions, but not in this tone.

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