Gerard Meijssen writes:
Hoi, I would say that it is a matter of priorities. As far as I am aware the priorities are very much one of:
- KEEP THEM ROLLING
- We are volunteers and we do as we like
Consequently, projects can take multiple years, things do not get done or done whenever. When the WMF has more developer capacity, it may make it a priority to prevent these bugs from bugging us.
Thanks, GerardM
Another option may be to allow stewards to change such configuration using web-interface like Configure [1].
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Configure --VasilievVV