Forwarding an announcement. Feedback can go to Alexandros, who may or may not be subscribed to a mailing list where you see this email, so if you have something to say on list you may also want to include Alexandros' email address in the to: field. (By the way, on one previous occasion I saw a small number of highly hostile messages being directed at WMF staff regarding a UI change that I thought was reasonable. If you are a community member and something about this UI change upsets you, please vent to me first and then after you have finished venting you can send a calmer version of your message to Alexandros.)
Thanks,
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alexandros Kosiaris akosiaris@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:29 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Etherpad upgrade and a new skin To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Foundation Optional foundation-optional@wikimedia.org
Hello everyone,
I normally don't send out emails like this when we upgrade etherpad, but 1.8.4 (which we just upgraded to), has brought in a UI change (one that was introduced in 1.8.3) which, in my opinion, warrants a heads up so that people aren't caught off guard. Etherpad-lite now has had a new skin and that's what you will experience while using it. There's also a number of other changes, you can have a quick look at https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md if you are interested.
Regards,
-- Alexandros Kosiaris Principal Site Reliability Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:36 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarding an announcement. Feedback can go to Alexandros, who may or may not be subscribed to a mailing list where you see this email, so if you have something to say on list you may also want to include Alexandros' email address in the to: field. (By the way, on one previous occasion I saw a small number of highly hostile messages being directed at WMF staff regarding a UI change that I thought was reasonable. If you are a community member and something about this UI change upsets you, please vent to me first and then after you have finished venting you can send a calmer version of your message to Alexandros.)
I appreciate the offer made here by Pine to give you a way to initially calm down, but if you do feel the need to vent about a UI change done by an unaffiliated upstream project, please DO NOT vent even calmly at Alexandros or anyone else on the Wikimedia Foundation's SRE team or employed by the Wikimedia Foundation generally. Please open your nearest window and share your complaints with the clouds in the sky. They will be happy for the attention.
Bryan
Upstream projects making UI changes without consulting ME? I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value! I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
In all seriousness, thanks to the upstream developers and WMF ops folks for their continued hard work.
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:43 PM Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:36 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarding an announcement. Feedback can go to Alexandros, who may or may not be subscribed to a mailing list where you see this email, so if you have something to say on list you may also want to include Alexandros' email address in the to: field. (By the way, on one previous occasion I saw a small number of highly hostile messages being directed at WMF staff regarding a UI change that I thought was reasonable. If you are a community member and something about this UI change upsets you, please vent to me first and then after you have finished venting you can send a calmer version of your message to Alexandros.)
I appreciate the offer made here by Pine to give you a way to initially calm down, but if you do feel the need to vent about a UI change done by an unaffiliated upstream project, please DO NOT vent even calmly at Alexandros or anyone else on the Wikimedia Foundation's SRE team or employed by the Wikimedia Foundation generally. Please open your nearest window and share your complaints with the clouds in the sky. They will be happy for the attention.
Bryan
Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808
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