On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams <
kwwilliams(a)kwwilliams.com> wrote:
Op 2013/08/05 23:44, MZMcBride schreef:
This leaves us to consider the biggest question: opt-in vs. opt-out. Erik
and James are both quite smart, they are true
Wikimedians, and they make
reasonable points about choosing opt-out over opt-in.
This is the point on which we fundamentally disagree. Their argument for
'opt-out' is based solely upon the quality and quantity of testing that it
affords to VE. VE is not a mission-critical feature: while we have concerns
about Wikipedia's sustainability, there's no question that it has survived
for years and will survive for years more. The stability of the site is
much more important than testing this code, and the testing strategy of
presenting it as if it was functioning software and seeing what people did
with it wasn't a reasonable decision: it was completely and absolutely
irresponsible.
KWW
Opt-out with a beta or experimental notice (as it is now when enabled on
en.wiki) doesn't seem to have the problem of presenting it if it were
mature software you present as the pivotal problem in this post.
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