Op 2013/08/06 7:55, Martijn Hoekstra schreef:
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams <
kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com> wrote:
Their argument for
'opt-out' is based solely upon the quality and quantity of testing that it
affords to VE. VE is not a mission-critical feature: while we have concerns
about Wikipedia's sustainability, there's no question that it has survived
for years and will survive for years more. The stability of the site is
much more important than testing this code, and the testing strategy of
presenting it as if it was functioning software and seeing what people did
with it wasn't a reasonable decision: it was completely and absolutely
irresponsible.
Opt-out with a beta or experimental notice (as it is now when enabled on
en.wiki) doesn't seem to have the problem of presenting it if it were
mature software you present as the pivotal problem in this post.
Their deployment strategy (not labeling the software as beta on the user
interface, changing the function of the existing buttons, no warning
when the software was entered, deploying it to new editors that had no
chance of having seen notices about it) hinged on getting the unwary and
uninformed to press the "edit" button without realizing what they were
getting into. Saying that it is reasonable *now* doesn't excuse the five
weeks that preceded it.
KWW
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