James, please try assuming a bit of good faith - namely that Steven might occasionally work with experienced developers, and consult them on issues like this, given that he's the Product Manager for a major engineering team and all ;p.

On 12 September 2014 14:28, James Salsman <jsalsman@gmail.com> wrote:

How many estimated days of developer work is the "major can of worms" of delivering thank notifications only, in a new way, to IPs? As cans of worms go, I'm pretty sure it would not be on the major end of the scale, if an experienced developer actually quantified it.

On Sep 12, 2014 6:40 AM, "David Gerard" <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 September 2014 17:34, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Actually sending thanks to IPs would require us to either send the
> notification in a new way, or deliver Echo notifications to anonymous
> editors. Either prospect is a major can of worms.

Ah, OK! I didn't realise that complication factor ...

(still it'd be fantastic to have)

- d.

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