On 25 July 2013 15:45, Tyler Romeo <tylerro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, James Forrester > <jforres...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > > > That's just flatly wrong. Removing the preference was always the > intention > > and had been mentioned several times. > > > > See here it is again. Was is absolutely necessary to say I was "flatly > wrong"? This thread began with mentions of the original patchset in which > the $wgHiddenPrefs was enabled *because of the messages error* so I don't > see how it was such a terrible conclusion to come to. > > I made the call about a year ago, and mentioned it in several of the > > dozens of mailing list and on-wiki posts made about the development of > > VisualEditor since then. Clearly my communication about it wasn't read, > or > > wasn't understood, by the people who subsequently complained, but I > > wouldn't describe it as being "done silently". > > > Could you maybe link to where you emailed wikitech about this, because I > just searched my Gmail and found no such email. > > It's in the Engineering goals for 2012-13[1] in "big picture" and VE Q4 activities and periodically in the VisualEditor/status reports starting in January 2013[2] that VisualEditor will be the default editor. There is nothing that I could find that said that the existing preference would be disabled.
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