On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]>wrote: > > Anyway, back then it didn't need board member campaigning - whole > board knew it is important task, it needed executive level decision, > that we need someone dedicated to this task, and once such discussion > was made, dumps started rolling.
Right...where can I go to download the full history English Wikipedia dump? Still doesn't work. And yes, it needs an executive level decision, and it needs a kick in the ass from the board to get the executive level to make that decision. How many millions of dollars were left unspent by the tech team a couple years ago? And yes, it was matter of overall priorities > execution, which got resolved somehow, right? > It's not resolved. And even if it got resolved today, that'd still be three years too late. > You seem to fail to understand, that for years tech team was also a > volunteer body - though of course, eventually more and more people got > on the paycheck. > And whose fault is that? The fault of the CTO, which is in turn the fault of the board. > Frankly, the major input about the dumps that the tech team got from > the community was "you suck where are our dumps" kind of input - with > lots of whining and no rationalization :-) No "rationalization"? I can't say I understand what you're asking for. The dumps will be fixed when *one person* is put in charge of fixing them, and when that person has at least several hours a week to dedicate to the task. The dumps aren't like encyclopedia articles. You can't have a bunch of people adding little things here and there and expect a working product, and it's unrealistic to expect someone to take charge of this sort of thing for free, especially in the current economy. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
