On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com>wrote:
> If your patch causes a serious UX regression like this, it's going to get > reverted. The core patch involved was being deployed to Wikimedia sites / > impacting MobileFrontEnd users today. If we had more time in the deployment > cycle to wait and the revert was a simple disagreement, then waiting would > be appropriate. It is obvious in this case no one tested the core change on > mobile. That's unacceptable. > You quoted my email, but didn't seem to read it. Changes to MediaWiki core should not have to take into account extensions that incorrectly rely on its interface, and a breakage in a deployed extension should result in an undeployment and a fix to that extension, not a revert of the core patch. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
