[WikiEN-l] Community ready for Pending Changes (nee Flagged Protection)?

[George Herbert]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> Just for the sake of understanding better for next time, would people
> have preferred that we launched later?
>
> We gave a date as soon as we were reasonably confident that we could hit
> a date for the minimum feature set, based on the theory that people
> wanted this ASAP. But naturally, we could have announced a later date.
>
> If in the future the community would like X weeks of cushion to prepare
> for a feature change, I think that's a very reasonable thing to ask for.
> The time wouldn't be wasted; there's plenty of good stuff left to do.
>
> William
>
> On 06/12/2010 06:59 AM, Cenarium sysop wrote:
>> 10 days is a bit short for preparation, as most people didn't get involved
>> until a launch date was fixed. It would have been nice if we had had a bit
>> more time, but we should broadly be ready. It's also not impossible that we
>> request some configuration changes before or during the trial.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:31 AM, K. Peachey<p858snake at yahoo.com.au>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Rob Lanphier<robla at wikimedia.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:54 AM, FT2<ft2.wiki at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> One thing needed - can someone reply to this thread with a list of all
>>>>> Flagged Revs related pages (whether RFCs, proposals, or major threads)
>>>>>
>>> so
>>>
>>>>> we
>>>>> can see what's out there?
>>>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&ns108=1&ns109=1&redirs=0&search=WP%3AFlagged
>>>
>>> Will get most of the pages (in the WP ns at least).
>>>
>>> -Peachey
>>>

Honestly?  We could have picked any delay and there would still be
some people it will suprise when it hits.  The Vector skin change had
been in the header for months and still suprised people.

It's been announced and discussed in advance to an adequate degree, IMHO.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com