https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61163
Ori Livneh <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #21 from Ori Livneh <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Tisza Gergő from comment #11) > it is a stable extension successfully deployed on several high-profile wikis No, it is not. The extension is "clearly not welcome by a majority of editors", per the Foundation's own assessment. It is only a narrow a view of success that omits this criterion. > That AFT was not welcome by three large wikis (or not welcome by the majority > of the editors on those wikis, anyway) is no reason to think that no other > wiki > will have a different opinion. That AFT was not successful at being broadly compelling to users is no reason to think that no other feature will. The volume of space that AFTv5 occupies is not measured in kilobytes or pixels, but in the cognitive load that it adds on developers and users. "The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other." - J. Carmack -- 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
