[Labs-l] A (21) day in the Labs

[Daniel Friesen]

On 2013-05-01 4:46 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> If folks work with us rather than fight with us, we'll get things done
>> faster, together.
> I haven't seen evidence that any such correlation exists in
> WMF software development.  On the contrary, contested fea-
> tures were finished on time against considerable opposition,
> while for example the community invested much energy in
> string manipulation functions and had to wait years for Lua
> to come along.
>
> Tim
Sorry. But strictly speaking. Staff said for ages that string functions
wouldn't be enabled on the cluster.
Community "investing" in string functions when it's said they won't be
enabled on the cluster sounds more like fighting with WMF than working
with them.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]