[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Implementing the Babel extension

[Chad]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> There is no single way of informing people about something that might be of
> interest to them. This thread started as a thread to three mailing lists, it
> is now only visible to developers.
>
> This extension has been documented on Meta, there is info on Mediawiki.org
> .. it has been discussed on IRC. There have been commits. There will always
> be people that do not get the message. People that will say that the
> communication was not good enough because they did not hear of it, because
> it did not attract their attention. You did not consider the commit messages
> of interest, that is your problem it is not that this information was not
> there for you. And yes, there is too much information out there.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > [snip /]
>> > The notion that this is a first time that the Babel template has been
>> > discussed is flatly wrong. MinuteElection has discussed this on IRC on
>> > several occasions. Pathoschild acknowledges that it  has been discussed
>> in
>> > the past but he chose to go his own way. In the mean time this
>> functionality
>> > provides a better mouse trap and as such it deserves to be implemented.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >       GerardM
>>
>> The notion that a discussion on IRC can get the range of views and
>> insight a mailing list can is also flatly wrong.
>>
>> It was _not_  brought up publicly (on mailing lists, etc.), and thus the
>> community lacked the chance to give input. I saw commit messages
>> go by for an extension, but I do not automatically go look into it
>> (many extensions are of no interest to me, I would not, for example,
>> pay attention to a  commit to the YouTube extension). Had I known
>> this was coming, I might've been more inclined to follow along and
>> comment before now.
>>
>> -Chad
>>
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To use a metaphor, it would be like you handing me a large
book and then faulting me when I hadn't read the one chapter
you wished to discuss. Now, is that my fault for not reading
the chapter, or yours, for not indicating it needed to be read?

(sorry about losing some of the lists, it can get confusing which
threads have gone where, for that I apologize)

-Chad