Gregory Maxwell writes: >> Imagine that someone cleaning your office took your important >> paperwork and dumped it in a bin. You complain— "Hey we need that >> stuff to be accessible!" and they retort "Thank you for your >> _feedback_. We'll consider it during our future cleaning plans". >> >> We're not just providing feedback here. We're collectively making a >> decision, as we've always done, thank you very much.
Well put. It's great to see new things being tried. It seems to me this sort of change (any big change) might work out more smoothly if the final implementation of any major change was separated from its development. That implementation can be handled by people who have long experience specifically with collective decisions, rolling out changes, identifying and isolating controversial bits, &c. We're not bad at that within community discussions -- and the "line-item rollback" ability for people to simply undo specific changes that irk them makes this much, much easier to manage. Any time a central process becomes a bottleneck to "considering feedback" it becomes harder to swiftly reach a harmonious conclusion. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Mark Williamson <node...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am convinced that the unique organizational structure of our > organization, in which the community has historically been given a > very high level of authority in the decision-making process, is one of > the key elements of our success. Almost certainly. > Have we entered a new chapter in our history as > a community in which we, the people who have helped build this > project, no longer get to help make the important decisions by > contributing our ideas and venting our frustrations? Absolutely not. SJ PS - as one more data point on the interlang links specifically: I also use the rollover text of interlanguage links for translation - even when I have other good translation resources handy. That is one of our great accomplishments, and we should make more noise about it, not less. :-) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l