On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If you write, maintain or are otherwise active in development, and directly
> or indirectly make use of MediaWiki, then you should subscribe to:
>
>        [email protected]
>
> That is a mailing list that only brings important announcements for
> developers that use MediaWiki as an API.
>
> Note that this list is not limited to API as "api.php" but about MediaWiki as
> a application programming interface (API) in general.
>
Ah, what? Maybe you should've discussed this before you announced it
to every mailing list on the planet?

> Although time will learn how the list is used, to readers and writers of this
> list:
>
>        "All subjects should clearly indicate what needs changing and when!"
>
> For example "Vector skin sidebar html ID changes to '#mw-panel' in 1.17".
>
> Also, whenever Wikimedia has scheduled a deployment of revision(s) or entire
> branches that expose any change that was previously announced, a new mail
> should be sent here to remind/summarize upcoming changes (since gadgets
> should/can't be changed until the new version is deployed but new versions can
> be prepared or tested in advance)
>
> Hope to see you soon on [email protected] :)
>
Good luck with that. I'm the list admin of the api-announce list and I
am the only person that can post to it right now. I don't mind
changing this if we agree to broaden the list's scope, but "agree" is
the key word here. There was zero discussion, just a unilateral
declaration.

Roan

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