Example: We are running a fix in category sorting collations. That was a fix for the bug (introduced by developers, 3rd party software, whatever), not an enhancement. Anyway, notifying the community and its approval was requested.
On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 03/21/2013 02:55 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
I've seen a couple of instances where changes to MediaWiki are blocked until someone informs the community.
Someone is a volunteer.
Community is actually just the Wikimedia project communities. Or at least the biggest ones which are expected to complain and where the complaining would hurt.
This situation seems completely unfair to me. WMF should be able to communicate upcoming changes itself, not throw it to volunteers. Volunteers can help, but they should not be responsible for this to happen.
Can you point to the changes blocked, or to anything that would give a
better idea to those of us that don't know what are the cases you are talking about?
I agree with the principle, but without more details it is difficult to
help fixing the problem.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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