On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Antoine Musso <amusso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Le 10/04/2014 23:11, Dan Garry a écrit :
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> As a team, we have responsibilities. For example, that task that's on
> there right now is a problem caused by our actions; we pulled that
> extension for security reasons, then decided we couldn't reenable it due
> to design issues. Therefore our actions have caused a very real
> regression in our user experience. As the product manager, I find these
> regressions concerning, and we have a responsibility to fix them.

In this specific case, if the security is solved we can probably
reenable it despite its design issue unless that causes performances or
more security issues (or maybe it is flawed by design).

I disagree: that extension shouldn't have been enabled in the first place. Drastically rearranging [[Special:Watchlist]] and [[Special:RecentChanges]] for everyone based on three people responding to a poll seems insufficient consensus to me.

And given the followup conversation at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel/Archives/2013-10#Enable_CleanChanges after it was enabled, there should probably be a new, well-advertised discussion before re-enabling it.


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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation