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.
It's in the Engineering goals for 2012-13[1] in "big picture" and VE
Q4
activities and periodically in the VisualEditor/status reports starting in
January 2013[2] that VisualEditor will be the default editor. There is
nothing that I could find that said that the existing preference would be
disabled.
Risker
[1]