Also, I was wondering where such a decision was made.
The new Talk code was requested both on Village Pump and on
the mailing
list repeatedly. The user page stuff was simply a side
effect of that.
I mean is there someone who made the final decision? (probably one who has a right to submit a code to CVS) For example, in Linux after all Linus decided to apply a patch or not. Of course, he listen to people's opinion but he made a decision.
However, if you want to keep up with the latest changes and
possibly have
some influence, check out the code and start hacking.
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_Wikipedia_hac
ker
Yeah, thanks. I don't think I can have influence though.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:05:51PM -0600, Takuya Murata wrote:
I mean is there someone who made the final decision? (probably one who has a right to submit a code to CVS) For example, in Linux after all Linus decided to apply a patch or not. Of course, he listen to people's opinion but he made a decision.
It seems it's usually Brion who commits stuff here, but it's less formal than with Linux kernel. And it's Jimbo who owns servers.
Anyway, this was rather uncontroversial change.
Takuya Murata wrote:
I mean is there someone who made the final decision?
In theory that's me, and for anything that really affects real policy in a real way, it should be discussed before implemented. On the other hand, lots of minor changes go in whenever the developers feel like it.
Erik instituted subpages on talk and user spaces and asked the world about it at the same time that it was installed. That wasn't really best practice. It turned out o.k., though, because in the ensuing discussion it turned out that I was pretty much the only person against it.
Generally, though, major things should be discussed before being implemented.
What counts as major versus minor? Well, that's a judgment call sometimes.
--Jimbo
On ĵaŭ, 2003-01-30 at 03:23, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Takuya Murata wrote:
I mean is there someone who made the final decision?
In theory that's me, and for anything that really affects real policy in a real way, it should be discussed before implemented. On the other hand, lots of minor changes go in whenever the developers feel like it.
Just like wiki. :)
Erik instituted subpages on talk and user spaces and asked the world about it at the same time that it was installed. That wasn't really best practice. It turned out o.k., though, because in the ensuing discussion it turned out that I was pretty much the only person against it.
Generally, though, major things should be discussed before being implemented.
Subpage support features for user-space had, in fact, been discussed on the mailing list before, and was approved by many. (If it hadn't, I definitely would have taken it out when installing updates.) The key feature, though, which still hasn't gotten done, is changing the 'contribs' and 'email' links on subpages to point to the user!
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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