On 4 April 2011 16:20, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I understand that WMF's resources are limited, but the development and the deployment of Vector did cost some money and also forced a lot of volunteers in English and in all other language projects to make adjustments to their sites. Measuring volunteer effort is harder to measure than money, but it's certainly not negligible.
If this is a valid argument - that technical changes should not be made if it would make work for other volunteers - then God forbid development continue on MediaWiki. See the current thread on wikitech-l about how chronically broken most site JavaScript is and what to do about the problem, given that freezing MediaWiki in perpetuity is really just not going to happen.
- d.