https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48666
kipod <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED CC| |[email protected] Resolution|FIXED |--- Summary|Mediawikiwiki: Make |underlying text for Visual |VisualEditor a hidden |editor in preferences |preference |[editing] tab & variable | |names? --- Comment #6 from kipod <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #2) > Simplest solution to this problem. :-) an excellent case where "simplest" is very far from "correct" or "best". in addition to being a bad solution, this change only affects enwiki, while the (original) bug is generic to all projects that install VE (and even non-projects, i.e., "3rd party" wikis). as a side, together with this wrong and bad solution, James Forrester also changed the synopsis of the bug: from the original ("underlying text for Visual editor in preferences [editing] tab & variable names?"), to "Make VisualEditor a hidden preference", i.e., instead of outlining the problem, the bug synopsis now spells the "solution". this is wrong on several levels: it creates the impression that the bug originator (billinghurst) asked to hide the preference, which he didn't, of course, and it hides the actual problem from someone reading this bug - only by digging in the history i was able to make sense of Comment #1, which looks now completely disjoint from the bug synopsis. wrong or bad solutions to problems is something that can and does happen in every project. that's just life. changing the synopsis the way it was changed is not something that can or should happen. without digging too deeply, i'm going to revert the synopsis to the original one, and reopen - presuming the problem affects more then just enwiki, and also, with the hope that Bug 50929 (basically a request to undo this change) will be fixed soon. peace. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
