On 25 July 2013 15:45, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.orgwrote:
That's just flatly wrong. Removing the preference was always the
intention
and had been mentioned several times.
See here it is again. Was is absolutely necessary to say I was "flatly wrong"? This thread began with mentions of the original patchset in which the $wgHiddenPrefs was enabled *because of the messages error* so I don't see how it was such a terrible conclusion to come to.
I made the call about a year ago, and mentioned it in several of the
dozens of mailing list and on-wiki posts made about the development of VisualEditor since then. Clearly my communication about it wasn't read,
or
wasn't understood, by the people who subsequently complained, but I wouldn't describe it as being "done silently".
Could you maybe link to where you emailed wikitech about this, because I just searched my Gmail and found no such email.
It's in the Engineering goals for 2012-13[1] in "big picture" and VE Q4 activities and periodically in the VisualEditor/status reports starting in January 2013[2] that VisualEditor will be the default editor. There is nothing that I could find that said that the existing preference would be disabled.
Risker
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status