On 19 December 2014 at 21:58, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I'm sorry that you feel our efforts are not good enough.

I didn't express a view on our efforts (I've no doubt they're
commendable); it's the results which are causing me concern.

> That said, for the reasons I mentioned, we've made a decision, both within
> the team and at the highest level of the Wikimedia Foundation, to not let
> perfect be the enemy of the good. Both with this feature, and in general.

Great. Perfect should never be the enemy of the good.

The problem is, the proposed change is not good; it's the opposite.

> We can't make software that has zero edge-cases. If we tried to do that, we'd
> never release anything.

Indeed not. Perhaps you could explain the basis for implying that the
instances I found (perhaps I was unlucky) are "edge cases". Maybe
there's some research on that you could share?

> Especially with only two engineers.

Yes; you mentioned that before. I suspect, therefore, that there's
some underlying yet serious issue about resourcing for your team. I'd
be happy to support you if you make a call for extra resources to
solve this and other issues, and to enable more or faster improvements
in the future. But I don't see it as justification for proceeding with
what appears to be a significant bug still in place, and one for which
no solution appears to be in sight.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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