On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, James Forrester
<jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
That's just flatly wrong. Removing the preference
was always the intention
and had been mentioned several times.
See here it is again. Was is absolutely necessary to say I was "flatly
wrong"? This thread began with mentions of the original patchset in which
the $wgHiddenPrefs was enabled *because of the messages error* so I don't
see how it was such a terrible conclusion to come to.
I made the call about a year ago, and mentioned it in several of the
dozens of mailing list and on-wiki posts made about
the development of
VisualEditor since then. Clearly my communication about it wasn't read, or
wasn't understood, by the people who subsequently complained, but I
wouldn't describe it as being "done silently".
Could you maybe link to where you emailed wikitech about this, because I
just searched my Gmail and found no such email.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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