On 11/9/05, Poor, Edmund W Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Until now, developers simply judged consensus - usually from the mailing list. If they hesitate to do so now, with 100 times as many contributors as we had 2 years ago, then let's put it to a vote.
Angela, what's the proper way to vote on this?
I'd advise not voting it (http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?VotingIsEvil). There's nothing to guarantee developers will carry something out simply because it was voted on. There is a voting mechanism inside bugzilla (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/page.cgi?id=voting.html) but I'm not aware of anyone taking the results of that seriously.
I think the suggestion of using a non-Wikimedia site to trial this first would be a good idea. If that's done with no problems, someone might be more willing to risk it on Wikimedia servers. I'd offer Wikicities, but we're still on 1.4.
Angela.