[Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

[Chad]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Teofilo <teofilowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/9/7, Kropotkine_113 <Kropotkine113 at free.fr>:
>> There is absolutely nothing wrong with it on french Wikipedia.
>
> My interpretation : French admins are happy to see their powers
> increased, and to mimic oversighters with it.

You don't seem to understand how the feature works, despite
repeated explanations.

> Non-admins, especially
> newly-registered ones might be too shy or not aware that they are
> allowed to have an opinion on such issues, and feel that when
> developpers install a new software on your wiki, (if they only find
> out that the software has changed: many changes are quite invisible)
> you just have to shut up and smile.
>

I agree that the learning curve for contribution into the development
process is probably unnecessarily high for a newcomer. That being
said, this feature (along with almost all others) are developed using
a public bug tracker, a public code repository, and public code review.
Both Bugzilla and Code Review are open for anyone to comment on.

If you *want* to become involved in the development of MediaWiki
and take interest in what's in store for the software then by all
means do so. But don't sit here and make accusations that none
of this was ever announced. That is simply not true.

As Tim said, this feature was in development for years, and was no
secret. The time for commenting has since passed, and I think this
thread is going nowhere real quick.

-Chad