On 10/12/2010 9:58 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
>   On 10/12/10 6:10 PM, Alex wrote:
>> On 10/12/2010 8:35 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
>>>    Conversation has been taking place on CodeReview about whether people
>>> (developer and system administrators) will find it confusing that
>>> there's code in both "extensions/Vector" and "skins/vector" that are
>>> related but not the same thing.
>>>
>>> I personally find it simple to understand and don't expect most
>>> developers and system administrators to feel otherwise, but in the
>>> interest of upholding the community-driven decision making process that
>>> has made MediaWiki what it is, I wanted to bring a little extra
>>> attention to the matter so we can make a decision and move on with our
>>> lives.
>>>
>>> I'm interested in views on whether the Vector extension should be named
>>> something else or remain as it is. If your view is that it should be
>>> renamed, suggestions for what it should be named would be useful.
>>>
>>> Apologies in advance for the sheer triviality of this matter;
>>> unfortunately these kinds of bike shed problems [2] tend to be
>>> infinitely exciting, while complex matters are more often met with
>>> general disinterest.
>> I think its a bit disingenuous to say that the only issue is the naming
>> of the Vector extension. My opposition is to splitting the
>> UsabilityInitiative into separate extensions for what will very likely
>> be only a *single release*. And as Chad noted, there's also the question
>> of whether they should even continue to be an extension. Or to put it
>> another way, should we intentionally hold off on adding the usability
>> stuff to core until the next release because we're already adding
>> ResourceLoader in 1.17? That's hardly a bike shed problem.
>>
> Nor is it the problem I am referring to as a bike shed problem.
> 

Correct, that's the problem you didn't even mention.

-- 
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)

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