Tony Sidaway wrote:
We should not have had to hold a discussion on this. Nobody is being forced at gunpoint to acquire or use rollback powers. If it weren't for the abject timidity of the developers, my guess is that we would have uncontroversially had rollback for all registered users since 2005.
Far from being rushed through in a six-day debate as Doc appears to believe, the discussion on this practical and sensible extension of software functionality has dragged on needlessly for years, as perfect an example of instruction creep as it would be possible to ask for.
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I say again, rollback is NOT the problem. And dismissing rollback for the trivia it is, is beside the point.
The problem is saddling us with the silly distraction of making every admin into a mini-bureaucrat empowered to make-rollbacker and unmake rollbacker. That's already leading to instruction creep, little cabals, and people getting uppity. Rollback is too trivial for the type infrastructure and debate that admin-grants necessarily creates.
Ending the instruction creep is simple - switch it on for all auto-confirmed users. Or, alternatively, allow all users a preference to switch it on or off for themselves.