Wow Risker, you obviously don't read any mailing lists/ blogs or sign posts. I just did a quick search of my email records for wiki tech and ipv6 the first result that I see is from July 2007. Almost 5 years ago, I also remember a big push last year about this same time for ipv6.
On Friday, June 1, 2012, Risker wrote: > Indeed, a long time. Discussed on Mediawiki and bugzilla; it's not even > discussed on Wikitech-L. Neither of which 99.99999% of users, including > many volunteer developers, have time to follow. This is not just a > technical change, it's a cultural one. > > I've long stood up for the Engineering Department when it is making changes > that have only minor effects on the public face of the project; I know that > sometimes users can be hyperactive about minor points. But this isn't a > minor point. I'd compare it to Vector - something that there was longterm, > active communication about throughout its development cycle, with lots of > outreach to volunteer developers and to the community, and opportunities to > test things out. > > I can't stand up for them this time, though. It's not even discussed well > on Mediawiki, and is mostly in passing on the Roadmap.[1] And the few > community-based questions that have come up, specifically on Erik's meta > userpage, have not been given the courtesy of a reply. > > Risker > > > > > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap > > On 1 June 2012 19:35, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > On 2 June 2012 00:08, Risker <risker...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Fully enabling IPv6 has been coming a *long* time - over a year, with > > months of planning and work before even that - as Erik's first message > > in this thread notes, and it was hardly a secret. Your objections may > > be entirely too late - it is vanishingly unlikely that two years' > > effort will suddenly be thrown away. Were you literally unaware until > > now that this was in the works? > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
