On 11/4/08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Who do you mean by the operator? The people changing whether the flagged or latest version is shown by default? The people doing the flagging?
The former should not be changing on a regular basis (and certainly not on a per-article basis), so probably the latter.
They'll be guided by policy just as in everything else and that policy can be made strictly more open than the current protection policy, so what's the problem?
One need not look too far to see that current protection policy is disregarded more often than not. Part of it might depend on whether versions can be unflagged and flag-wars can erupt, or on what sort of policy is adopted and whether anyone pays it any mind.
There may be a de facto (or even de jure) variation of standards for deciding whether a version should be flagged/sighted/stable/cabal-approved/etc. If so, if "these articles must be free of any unsourced sentences" but "those articles need only be free of obvious vandalism" we'll really be no better off than now.
These are the known unknowns but there may be more. I haven't played around with it all that much, not in English anyway. I'll install it on my site and get back to you on this.
—C.W.