On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:22, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 September 2011 09:15, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
We need to stop wasting time and energy on personal wishes of two Board members. As it isn't about removing the content, any solution is better than wasting willingness on one nonconstructive and decadent project. If that time and energy was spent on rewriting Parser, we would have WYSIWYG editor a year or two ago.
Although I broadly agree with the rest of your message, I disagree with the Parser bit on the end - basically, the parser rewrite had to pass muster with someone at Brion or Tim level, as there's not really anyone else who would be able to say "these bits of syntax are out" and have it stick; and since I suspect Tim would rather spork his eyes out than read the words "parser rewrite" ever again, getting Brion in to work on it was the only way to make it go forward. Developer effort is not fungible in the face of politics :-)
I had in my mind organizational efforts, mostly. However, I saw that at least one tech employee is against the filter, as well as Tim is in favor. So, they already waste their time. (Said so, I think that important value of WMF is exactly the fact that their employees are able to freely express their positions.)