[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck

[Chad]

Requests to change how SpecialPage queries are run, to add greater flexibility
for sorting. A change that would /most certainly/ affect the community.

Chad

On Jan 13, 2008 3:19 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've made quite a few requests for new features, etc...and I didn't
> > ask the en.wiki community first.
>
> What kind of requests are you talking about? There is a big difference
> between asking for a change to the site's configuration for user
> permissions and asking for a new magic word to let you display the
> latest football results automagically. The former type of requests
> require community approval and have done for years, the latter kind
> have nothing to do with the community - the community can, of course,
> choose not the use them, but deciding what features to add to the code
> is completely up the developers.
>
>
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