On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM, William Pietri <will...@scissor.com> wrote: > Just for the sake of understanding better for next time, would people > have preferred that we launched later? > > We gave a date as soon as we were reasonably confident that we could hit > a date for the minimum feature set, based on the theory that people > wanted this ASAP. But naturally, we could have announced a later date. > > If in the future the community would like X weeks of cushion to prepare > for a feature change, I think that's a very reasonable thing to ask for. > The time wouldn't be wasted; there's plenty of good stuff left to do. > > William > > On 06/12/2010 06:59 AM, Cenarium sysop wrote: >> 10 days is a bit short for preparation, as most people didn't get involved >> until a launch date was fixed. It would have been nice if we had had a bit >> more time, but we should broadly be ready. It's also not impossible that we >> request some configuration changes before or during the trial. >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:31 AM, K. Peachey<p858sn...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: >> >> >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Rob Lanphier<ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:54 AM, FT2<ft2.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> One thing needed - can someone reply to this thread with a list of all >>>>> Flagged Revs related pages (whether RFCs, proposals, or major threads) >>>>> >>> so >>> >>>>> we >>>>> can see what's out there? >>>>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&ns108=1&ns109=1&redirs=0&search=WP%3AFlagged >>> >>> Will get most of the pages (in the WP ns at least). >>> >>> -Peachey >>>
Honestly? We could have picked any delay and there would still be some people it will suprise when it hits. The Vector skin change had been in the header for months and still suprised people. It's been announced and discussed in advance to an adequate degree, IMHO. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
