Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 9/9/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca>
wrote:
I'm not a coder at all, I'm an editor. If
I'm not supposed to
believe anything I read on the mailing list without checking out
SVN repositories and such to confirm it first-hand, what's the
point in reading the mailing lists at all?
You don't have to be a coder to ask critical questions like "Have you
actually coded anything yet?".
I have done so in the past, and have been told in the past that the
code was in place, or just needed to be optimized, or was written but
not put into the main repository, etc.
You were telling me that whenever anyone says something like that I
shouldn't believe anything of the sort and should instead check out the
source tree personally (presumably learning PHP if I don't already know
it). So again, what's the point in asking? And since coding is only half
the battle, how does this apply to the question of actually implementing
the feature in the live Wikipedia?