On Jul 25, 2013 8:09 PM, "Tyler Romeo" <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <
martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> That's a de facto decision isn't it? Somebody figured flipping that
switch
without
discussing it with the wikis first was a good idea. The question
still stands: if they didn't expect this fall out, why not, and if they
did, why keep quiet?
Well the thing is it wasn't turned off because they wanted to turn it off.
It was turned off because the message was incorrect, and the development
required to fix it would have taken a significant amount of time. It does
sort of count as a de facto decision, but I don't imagine community
fallout
would have been taken into account since it was an
engineering decision
and
not a product decision.
I find that somewhat hard to believe, but if it is true, should that worry
us? I'm not sure that we should be comfortable with changes like these not
giving pause to our engineers.
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
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