On ĵaŭ, 2003-01-30 at 03:23, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Takuya Murata wrote:
I mean is there someone who made the final decision?
In theory that's me, and for anything that really affects real policy in a real way, it should be discussed before implemented. On the other hand, lots of minor changes go in whenever the developers feel like it.
Just like wiki. :)
Erik instituted subpages on talk and user spaces and asked the world about it at the same time that it was installed. That wasn't really best practice. It turned out o.k., though, because in the ensuing discussion it turned out that I was pretty much the only person against it.
Generally, though, major things should be discussed before being implemented.
Subpage support features for user-space had, in fact, been discussed on the mailing list before, and was approved by many. (If it hadn't, I definitely would have taken it out when installing updates.) The key feature, though, which still hasn't gotten done, is changing the 'contribs' and 'email' links on subpages to point to the user!
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)