On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>wrote;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.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science