https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28363
--- Comment #8 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2011-04-07 22:24:06 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > Currently this is not a change that will be accepted into the main repository; > as noted above, the requested feature doesn't mesh with CheckUser's design > goals (use by a trusted admin subset on Wikimedia Foundation sites, with a > flat > permission access level). For what it's worth, I disagree with this resolution, but seeing that both Tim and Brion have now marked this as "wontfix," I won't overturn it. CheckUser was certainly designed with Wikimedia wikis in mind, but much like MediaWiki and its various extensions, it's used on plenty of other sites. I don't see anything here that interferes with the principle and tradition of agnostic code development. It's perfectly possible to add a permissions check that doesn't interfere with Wikimedia's operations (e.g., comment out the permissions making them opt-in, problem solved). The idea itself (allowing people to be exempt from CheckUsers) has a bit flimsy reasoning currently, but no more so than the counter-arguments, which basically amount to "this wasn't in the original spec." I don't see any reason that we should be saying "we're not even going to accept patches for this, so stop asking." -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
