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

[Brad Jorsch]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> 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.

I imagine this is referring to bug 6455,[1] during which someone
created/improved[2] Extension:StringFunctions and then got (parts of?)
it merged into Extension:ParserFunctions. But none of that was
accepted for deployment on WMF wikis, in favor of something like
Scribunto (active development of which began about a year after the
merge into ParserFunctions).

 [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6455
 [2]: I'm not sure which.