Example: We are running a fix in category sorting collations. That was a fix for the bug (introduced by developers, 3rd party software, whatever), not an enhancement. Anyway, notifying the community and its approval was requested.
On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/21/2013 02:55 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote: >> >> I've seen a couple of instances where changes to MediaWiki are blocked >> until someone informs the community. >> >> Someone is a volunteer. >> >> Community is actually just the Wikimedia project communities. Or at >> least the biggest ones which are expected to complain and where the >> complaining would hurt. >> >> This situation seems completely unfair to me. WMF should be able to >> communicate upcoming changes itself, not throw it to volunteers. >> Volunteers can help, but they should not be responsible for this to >> happen. > > Can you point to the changes blocked, or to anything that would give a better idea to those of us that don't know what are the cases you are talking about? > > I agree with the principle, but without more details it is difficult to help fixing the problem. > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- З павагай, Павел Селіцкас/Pavel Selitskas Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
