I am for ease of use. I am against reduced functionality. When both objectives collide functionality should take prevalence. As someone said we should not make the lowest common denominator coder the norm. A separate table namespace seems a good compromise.
I am curious how these controversies are resolved nowadays in this community. A few people state their opinion and developers make the final decision?
I am curious how these controversies are resolved nowadays in this community. A few people state their opinion and developers make the final decision?
Sure - in the end they will do the programming, not the users. Any user is free to share in as Phase III Software developer. However, if our developers are good developers (and I bet they are), they will listen to what the people actually using their software will state as their requirements ;-)
Uli
Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
I am curious how these controversies are resolved nowadays in this community. A few people state their opinion and developers make the final decision?
Sure - in the end they will do the programming, not the users. Any user is free to share in as Phase III Software developer. However, if our developers are good developers (and I bet they are), they will listen to what the people actually using their software will state as their requirements ;-)
And that a (or better _the_) developer posted such a vision for starting discussions before he starts coding seems to proof this.
Smurf
Thomas Corell wrote:
And that a (or better _the_) developer posted such a vision for starting discussions before he starts coding seems to proof this.
Right. It's highly unlikely that Lee will edit the PediaWiki code in such a way that advanced table features will no longer work, simply because this is proving to be quite unpopular. However, there's no guarantee that he'll edit the code to allow, say, a [[table:]] namespace, even if everybody else wants it -- some other developer may have to do that instead, if it happens at all.
-- Toby
(Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu): Thomas Corell wrote:
And that a (or better _the_) developer posted such a vision for starting discussions before he starts coding seems to proof this.
Right. It's highly unlikely that Lee will edit the PediaWiki code in such a way that advanced table features will no longer work, simply because this is proving to be quite unpopular. However, there's no guarantee that he'll edit the code to allow, say, a [[table:]] namespace, even if everybody else wants it -- some other developer may have to do that instead, if it happens at all.
You're probably right that I won't do [[table:]], because while I've heard support for it, I have yet to hear a good argument for it. Popularity is not a good argument.
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