On 11/01/2008, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
Volunteers don't appreciate being dictated to,
especially not after
they've been told that they're supposed to have a say in how
things operate.
This is the crux of the issue.
I don't care about rollback one way or the other, really. What I do
care about is a flagrant disregard for process -- and as Ken Arromdee
implied: this change, unilaterally implemented by a developer without
community consensus may not be harmful to the encyclopaedia, but the
next one might be. Please let's not get ourselves into a situation
where the devs can do what they want and the community is powerless.