[Mediawiki-l] Protection specific to anons

Thu Sep 15 12:38:15 UTC 2005

On 9/15/05, steve v <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  I dont do the bugzilla thing, so Im filing this here,
>  with no expectation or requirement for feedback.

If you care about a feature idea, do the footwork to at least see if
there have been similar requests.  Then you can back an existing
request.

Developers quite literally do not care about mailing lists for
collecting ideas.  If it doesn't show up in their bug tracker it'll
never be seen by the people who matter to a feature.

It's people like me who might grab interesting ideas for filling a
report with, but it's a slap in the face when someone specifically
opts out of adding it themselves.

In this particular case, security has been a long-discussed issue. 
I'm rather interested in it myself.  Of note, the team has very
specific opinions of it which have shaped the way security "works" for
MediaWiki.  I'm sure their minds won't be changed in this way.

Sigh..