On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 23:56 +0200, Strainu wrote:
Totally agree. It's not a question of how small/large such a change is, it's a question of collaboration and mutual respect. Which was lacking, yet again :(
While I'm not sure if "UI Standardization" is defined as a product in WMF, I'd hope that in the future https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration_Guideline will generally be helpful (which welcomes feedback).
The project's workboard can be found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ui-standardization/%C2%A0and it is linked from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface
Some communities will miss these changes completely just because they had already overridden the old values in Common.css, most likely for historical reasons. A heads-up would have allowed them to decide on whether to go with the upstream changes or stick with the current layout.
Regarding a heads-up, would it have helped to have these changes listed in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/49%C2%A0?
Cheers, andre