All,

I noticed when going through recent patches to DonationInterface that we
had an instance of someone not in fundraising self commit some code --
similar changes resulting from the same 'bug' were affected across our code
base. Admittedly this was was a minor textual fix - but as per [1] "Except
for documentation fix-ups, don't +2 your own code. 'Self-review is bad for
code quality and bad for morale.'"

I will admit I was in a terrible mood already today -- but discovering this
pissed me off. I am a strong advocate of never +2'ing your own code; and
this is especially true when you don't own the code in question. I don't
want to see this again.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/%2B2#Revocation

~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team
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