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

[Tim Landscheidt]

Daniel Friesen <daniel at nadir-seen-fire.com> 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.

> 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.

You can manipulate strings on the cluster *now*, so either
staff was wrong or you misunderstood something.

Tim