User talk:RobLa-WMF/Archive 1

Meetings notes
Hi! I've centralized and standardized meetings notes at Meetings. Please let me know if you have any concerns. --MZMcBride 22:48, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for copying on wiki WMF Projects/OWA/OWA Meeting 2010-11-18 etc.! Do you know if there's a way to make Etherpad produce a complete list of public pages created on the installation? Thank you, Nemo 23:32, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Other projects cannot share the same MediaWiki global variable names
What did you mean in by "most other projects cannot share the same MediaWiki global variable names"? Given that our globals are namespaced by a $wg prefix, namespace collisions doesn't seem a problem for third parties. Platonides 21:46, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The abundance of globals in our software is in direct conflict with the coding standards of most projects. Maybe they technically could reuse components from our system, but they won't. -- RobLa-WMF 21:57, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

"backcompat" tag and being a pedant
My initial thought is that your email to wikitech-l about the tag "backcompat" is counter-intuitive, and a labelling "backincompat" may be more explicit.

My concern is that "backcompat' can be ambiguous. it can mean either To the geeks it may be obvious, to those of us speaking English it is less so.  Anyway, just 20c worth of thoughts for consideration before it progresses. — billinghurst  sDrewth  14:13, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * that the change *is* backwards compatible so mark it as such; or
 * that the change "is incompatible" so mark it as such