2009/9/10 Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On 9/10/09 10:06 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Tim
Starling<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I don't know why you're writing this
nonsense, you obviously haven't
looked at the code at all.
This paragraph is unnecessary.
Seriously! Please read things aloud before clicking send. You will
hopefully then be able to better detect when it's time to take a break,
eat some fruit and take it down a notch.
In Tim's defense: I had indeed not
looked at the code at all, and what
I wrote was incorrect, so what he wrote was completely true. I also
mentioned that my understanding of the variant conversion system was
limited, and that I might be completely wrong. Turns out I was, and
Tim corrected me. It's true that he probably didn't use the most
friendly tone in the world, but I've seen much worse, so I don't
really care. Let's just drop this before it turns into a flame war;
I'd like to keep those off wikitech-l.
The variant system seems poorly understood by most
people (including me)
which often tends to cause something (like it for instance) to also be
under-utilized...
Seems I'm not the only one who had a completely wrong idea about how
variants work. We definitely need more documentation and fame for this
system, so its potential doesn't go to waste.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)