On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 10/12/10 7:42 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Trevor Parscal wrote:
Apologies in advance for the sheer triviality of
this matter;
unfortunately these kinds of bike shed problems [2] tend to be
infinitely exciting, while complex matters are more often met with
general disinterest.
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/73030#c10054
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality Naming and naming
conventions aren't trivialities.
Show me the convention for naming extensions and I will follow it. As
long as there is none, spending time going back and forth discussing the
name of something that users will never see is indeed spending time on a
trivial matter.
There isn't one. Maybe it's because we haven't cared until now, or
maybe because we haven't needed it. Policy or not, concerns were
raised about the naming of *this* extension. Saying "well there's
no policy so it's pointless to discuss it" is a cop-out.
-Chad