On Jul 25, 2013 8:09 PM, "Tyler Romeo" tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <
martijnhoekstra@gmail.com
wrote:
That's a de facto decision isn't it? Somebody figured flipping that
switch
without discussing it with the wikis first was a good idea. The question still stands: if they didn't expect this fall out, why not, and if they did, why keep quiet?
Well the thing is it wasn't turned off because they wanted to turn it off. It was turned off because the message was incorrect, and the development required to fix it would have taken a significant amount of time. It does sort of count as a de facto decision, but I don't imagine community
fallout
would have been taken into account since it was an engineering decision
and
not a product decision.
I find that somewhat hard to believe, but if it is true, should that worry us? I'm not sure that we should be comfortable with changes like these not giving pause to our engineers.
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