Indeed, a long time. Discussed on Mediawiki and bugzilla; it's not even discussed on Wikitech-L. Neither of which 99.99999% of users, including many volunteer developers, have time to follow. This is not just a technical change, it's a cultural one.
I've long stood up for the Engineering Department when it is making changes that have only minor effects on the public face of the project; I know that sometimes users can be hyperactive about minor points. But this isn't a minor point. I'd compare it to Vector - something that there was longterm, active communication about throughout its development cycle, with lots of outreach to volunteer developers and to the community, and opportunities to test things out.
I can't stand up for them this time, though. It's not even discussed well on Mediawiki, and is mostly in passing on the Roadmap.[1] And the few community-based questions that have come up, specifically on Erik's meta userpage, have not been given the courtesy of a reply.
Risker
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap
On 1 June 2012 19:35, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 June 2012 00:08, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Fully enabling IPv6 has been coming a *long* time - over a year, with months of planning and work before even that - as Erik's first message in this thread notes, and it was hardly a secret. Your objections may be entirely too late - it is vanishingly unlikely that two years' effort will suddenly be thrown away. Were you literally unaware until now that this was in the works?
- d.
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