On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling@gmail.com
wrote:
If your patch causes a serious UX regression like this, it's going to get reverted. The core patch involved was being deployed to Wikimedia sites / impacting MobileFrontEnd users today. If we had more time in the
deployment
cycle to wait and the revert was a simple disagreement, then waiting
would
be appropriate. It is obvious in this case no one tested the core change
on
mobile. That's unacceptable.
You quoted my email, but didn't seem to read it. Changes to MediaWiki core should not have to take into account extensions that incorrectly rely on its interface, and a breakage in a deployed extension should result in an undeployment and a fix to that extension, not a revert of the core patch.
I don't think core is in any way special here. It doesn't matter what broke what, the whole is much more important than the individual parts. If the patch to core is what broke things reverting it is the appropriate course of action.
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