On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, There is no single way of informing people about something that might be of interest to them. This thread started as a thread to three mailing lists, it is now only visible to developers.
This extension has been documented on Meta, there is info on Mediawiki.org .. it has been discussed on IRC. There have been commits. There will always be people that do not get the message. People that will say that the communication was not good enough because they did not hear of it, because it did not attract their attention. You did not consider the commit messages of interest, that is your problem it is not that this information was not there for you. And yes, there is too much information out there. Thanks, GerardM
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
[snip /] The notion that this is a first time that the Babel template has been discussed is flatly wrong. MinuteElection has discussed this on IRC on several occasions. Pathoschild acknowledges that it has been discussed
in
the past but he chose to go his own way. In the mean time this
functionality
provides a better mouse trap and as such it deserves to be implemented.
Thanks, GerardM
The notion that a discussion on IRC can get the range of views and insight a mailing list can is also flatly wrong.
It was _not_ brought up publicly (on mailing lists, etc.), and thus the community lacked the chance to give input. I saw commit messages go by for an extension, but I do not automatically go look into it (many extensions are of no interest to me, I would not, for example, pay attention to a commit to the YouTube extension). Had I known this was coming, I might've been more inclined to follow along and comment before now.
-Chad
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To use a metaphor, it would be like you handing me a large book and then faulting me when I hadn't read the one chapter you wished to discuss. Now, is that my fault for not reading the chapter, or yours, for not indicating it needed to be read?
(sorry about losing some of the lists, it can get confusing which threads have gone where, for that I apologize)
-Chad
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