I'd like to ask for more eyes and participation in an issue that is in an
apparent stalemate.
It all started with revision 105280
(
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/105280), where
Hashdar commited a new color scheme for diffs based on the French scheme.
When this generated some flack for making "green the remove-color", I
submitted a patch that reversed the colors
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33139). This was met with
general approval.
Before it could be applied though, Brandon steps in with another patch
(
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/106884) that mixed
the old yellow with the new blue, that looks absolutely horrible; a view in
which I am not alone. I immediately submitted a new patch that adjusted the
colors and levels, which is now under discussion.
However, today Hashdar closed my bug/patch as Resolved, as he considers the
matter closed. As the matter is clearly not, I reopened it. Now I would like
to invite as many devs as possible to chime in at r106884 (3rd link) to
evaluate the various options. Because if the current revision stands, and
subsequently makes in into MediaWiki, we will have a default diff color
scheme that will generate a guaranteed backlash form any project that uses
MediaWiki.
I'm not one to complain fast, but I now understand why develpers without
commit access just turn around and walk away; if submittd patches that have
approval are summarily overruled by those with commit access, there is
really no point in continueing to submit patches.
--
Erwin Dokter