I've got about 18 months worth of Wikitech-L in my archives, and there are two threads that talk about IPv6; one from March, that didn't provide a lot of information, and this one. There may be others, but they're not popping up on my search.
Forgive me for failing to read this week's signpost from cover to cover yet; it refers to the previous coverage from June 2011, and quotes Erik Moeller from some unknown and unspecified source. I don't know where he told "the community" that. Do you?
Risker
On 1 June 2012 20:10, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
Wow Risker, you obviously don't read any mailing lists/ blogs or sign posts. I just did a quick search of my email records for wiki tech and ipv6 the first result that I see is from July 2007. Almost 5 years ago, I also remember a big push last year about this same time for ipv6.
On Friday, June 1, 2012, Risker wrote:
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 javascript:;> wrote:
On 2 June 2012 00:08, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com javascript:;>
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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