On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Patrick Reilly preilly@wikimedia.org wrote:
There were 132 days for anybody to review and comment on the technical approach in the UID class.
— Patrick
Even if all people involved had seen in a 100 times, self-merging is a social rule separate from that. That was the reason it was brought up, and the reason it was subsequently reverted again. Nothing personal and not (directly) related to the contents of the commit itself.
-- Krinkle