Ryan wrote:
What was the purpose of changing colors? Aesthetics? If yes, this is bikeshedding. If there isn't a really good reason to change the colors, don't. If you are changing the colors so that they are more accessible for color blind users, for instance, then this is a legitimate change.
If your wiki has decided they want to bikeshed the colors, then your community can make consensus and change the colors in your wiki's CSS. The software is used by third parties. On-wiki consensus doesn't apply for a change that will modify the color for all users of the software.
The reason for the initial change is indeed to increase accesability. And the discussion I refer to was *not* in Wikipedia, but in the comment section of the commits in question. We had a very nice scheme ready for commit, when Brandon came in and simply ignored everything.
But... I have now submitted a new bug report (33335) with patch that outlines any change in detail. So the old discussion is moot as far as I am concerned. Please review and comment there.