On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:46:23AM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
Fine, but a) those are not the only problems he's having, and b) No [[Flag Day]]s.
Ok, that's the third time you've used the expression "flag day" on this list. After the second time, I looked it up and wasn't enlightened. What the hell do you mean? :)
For our purposes here, a Flag Day would be any change in the parser that would require a pass over all article bodies to change markup from an old to a new style, in whatever degree... as well as requiring changes in people's heads, and any code which otherwise deals with wikitext.
I don't think that a Flag Day for some exceedingly esoteric construction which needs to be cleaned up to make a formal parser necessary is completely impossible, but it would have to be pretty negligible, pretty important, or both... it goes back to that circle I mentioned.
And clearly, brion thinks that the absolute (never) is called for, which means that what I think doesn't matter -- and he's better informed than I am.
Cheers, -- jra