On 18 jul. 2013, at 00:25, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> "If people don't want to put their code through review this is scary to me" >> >> They do get their code reviewed. The rules are however usually simple 'it >> needs to work'. Not everyone has time to spend a gazillion hours on getting >> familiar with git, gerrit, jshint, git-review, resourceloader, i18n, l10n, >> the actual review lag, the deploy lag and I don't know what else. >> >> Some ppl just want to edit categories super fast NOW. That's how these tools >> start and then these people are usually done. A bit of required maintenance, >> but that's it, they are editing/reviewing/categorizing again. Look at >> navpopups. With minor changes, that thing has been able to run basically >> unsupervised since 2006 and it is one of the most popular tools. > > This seems like a bad habit to have got ourselves into... > All it takes is a trailing comma somewhere and a gadget could take out > a whole browser. > Likewise a bad usage of a css transition can completely kill site > performance and make everything laggy. > I'm not disagreeing that this workflow gets results - it obviously > does - but I think we should be striving to identify good Gadgets and > giving them love and attention for the good of everyone.
Like I said, I just don't think that Extensions and our current Developer workflow are a good fit for that love and attention. DJ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
