[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/1 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> That's better done by surveying the community, not a community
>> discussion.
>>
>
> Yeah, still waiting for that survey. Or that community discussion. Or that
> usability study. Something tells me that without any griping I will wait
> forever. I wonder what it is. Oh that's right - precedence. I dug through
> all of the conversations around ParserFunctions. There wasn't much. It takes
> a lot of diligence to fully consult the community consensus. It's hard work
> that developers, historically speaking, haven't card one iota about. Whoever
> finishes their implementation first and is best friends with a core dev
> wins.

Technical decisions should not be made by a consensus of laymen.