https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48666
James Forrester <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |FIXED Summary|underlying text for Visual |Mediawikiwiki: Make |editor in preferences |VisualEditor a hidden |[editing] tab & variable |preference |names? | --- Comment #7 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Simplest solution to this problem. :-) > > an excellent case where "simplest" is very far from "correct" or "best". I disagree. > in addition to being a bad solution, this change only affects enwiki, Not true. > while the (original) bug is generic to all projects that install VE (and > even non-projects, i.e., "3rd party" wikis). The message is over-rideable, which is an entirely-adequate solution for most third parties. The initial request was, in my opinion, asking for a solution that didn't require a local over-ride, and met the intent of the team anyway (as part of removing VisualEditor as a local user preference, which was temporarily implemented for the opt-in alphas and is going away). > 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 > VisualEditor 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 perfectly standard practice here. > 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, Again, this is normal; comment 0 is the location to find what the originator wanted. > 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. I'm sorry that you were confused. > 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. I strongly disagree. > without digging too deeply, i'm going to revert the synopsis to the original > one, and reopen - Which I have reverted, and opened a new bug, bug 51411, for your concerns. > presuming the problem affects more then just enwiki Your presumption is wrong. Note that the title you over-ride explicitly mentioned "Mediawikiwiki" (i.e., MediaWiki.org). -- 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
