On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.comwrote:
If your patch causes a serious UX regression like this, it's going to get reverted. The core patch involved was being deployed to Wikimedia sites / impacting MobileFrontEnd users today. If we had more time in the deployment cycle to wait and the revert was a simple disagreement, then waiting would be appropriate. It is obvious in this case no one tested the core change on mobile. That's unacceptable.
You quoted my email, but didn't seem to read it. Changes to MediaWiki core should not have to take into account extensions that incorrectly rely on its interface, and a breakage in a deployed extension should result in an undeployment and a fix to that extension, not a revert of the core patch.
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science