On 1/17/08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
That was my point. You were the one suggesting they could be merged:
I don't actually think this thread of discussion is getting anything accomplished, since each of us seems to be persistently misunderstanding the other without making any kind of useful point. So I'll just say, and leave it at this, that what you quote was suggesting the *interfaces* could perhaps eventually be merged, *in response* to your explicit question about oversight, and said nothing about linking the features themselves.
I meant "us" as in "the people on wikitech-l". It's important not to forget non-wikimedia wikis that use Mediawiki as well - they're needs are often very different in matters of security.
The people on wikitech-l (in particular, the developers and shell users on wikitech-l) are exactly the ones who decide things like this. wikitech-l is *meant* to discuss development issues like software defaults, and Wikimedia administration issues like site configuration policy. So I'm not sure what you're saying here.