Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Implying that particular groups of developers aim to
suppress
particular technical opinions, without naming the developers or giving
any supporting evidence, is definitely trolling.
You think calling specific individuals out ("getting personal") would
_improve_ matters? Interesting. Saying "thanks for your input" seems like a
pretty clear example of developers trying to suppress (or dismiss, rather)
particular technical opinions. I included a link to the relevant comments in
the follow-up e-mail.
This post would have been much improved if the second
sentence were deleted, and your follow-up post could have done without
language such as "artificial", "hasty", "appears to have no
basis in
reality" when speaking about a developer's actions.
Quite a few people are under the impression that MediaWiki 1.17 will be
released in October or November of this year. I've seen nothing publicly
that supports this, so until then, I'll treat it as dubious. I think it's
reasonable to do so. I asked in the follow-up e-mail if I was simply missing
an announcement somewhere about an updated roadmap or deadline, which is
entirely possible.
MZMcBride