On 4 April 2011 16:20, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)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.