I have avoided getting involved so I could stay focused on fixing bugs and
making improvements to VisualEditor.
This thread has served it's purpose; to surface various arguments about
whether the preference to disable VisualEditor should be hidden or not. The
conclusion has been reached. The preference is now available to opt out
while VisualEditor is in beta. The patch as been deployed, and we all need
to get back to work.
I would like to politely ask us to put this thread to rest so we can all
get back to our respective tasks at hand.
Thank you all for your participation, I am glad we were able to resolve
this.
- Trevor
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
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