On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 10/04/2014 23:11, Dan Garry a écrit :
> <snip>
> > As a team, we have responsibilities. For example, that task that's on
> > there right now is a problem caused by our actions; we pulled that
> > extension for security reasons, then decided we couldn't reenable it due
> > to design issues. Therefore our actions have caused a very real
> > regression in our user experience. As the product manager, I find these
> > regressions concerning, and we have a responsibility to fix them.
>
> In this specific case, if the security is solved we can probably
> reenable it despite its design issue unless that causes performances or
> more security issues (or maybe it is flawed by design).
>

I disagree: that extension shouldn't have been enabled in the first place.
Drastically rearranging [[Special:Watchlist]] and [[Special:RecentChanges]]
for everyone based on three people responding to a poll seems insufficient
consensus to me.

And given the followup conversation at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel/Archives/2013-10#Enable_CleanChangesafter
it was enabled, there should probably be a new, well-advertised
discussion before re-enabling it.


-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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