On 11/12/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
I've reverted r17507 and r17518 after getting massive complaints immediately after they went live in today's site update.
I'd like to ask that people please try to refrain from changing core styles like this without testing it against the actual site usage; for instance the prominent main pages of English and German Wikipedia and their site-specific CSS/JS.
We've gone through this dance enough times in the last few weeks I think we should all be able to realize that it's kind of disruptive and should be avoided.
Sorry, sorry . . . it's rather poor of me to constantly forget about custom styles when most of what I'm committing is UI stuff. Unfortunately some disruption is inevitable for this kind of stuff, which I suppose suggests it should be condensed and spaced out to the extent possible, with ample forewarning every time a batch is going to be committed. Maybe I should make a branch where this kind of potentially disruptive stuff can be committed, and then we can let stuff accumulate there for a couple of months and until we announce all the changes and merge to trunk? Does that sound like a good idea?