On 8 August 2014 01:29, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 August 2014 00:56, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'll stand by what I said previously. The community liaisons (two Is) are >> currently in the role of trying to sell the community on bad software. >> Good software, surprisingly, doesn't need hired "community liaisons" to >> roam around the large wikis to explain and defend its virtues. If you >> want to respond to the substantive point, please do. Otherwise, I don't >> really think it's fair nor productive to simply make appeals to emotion. > They've got two roles. They've got to try and get the developers to try and > introduce their changes in the way thee community accepts. They've also got > the role of keeping the community informed about what is going on. Given > that the developers want their software to be accepted (and lets face it > the community has a conservative element) there is a lot of pressure in the > direction of PR tactics. Unfortunately - and we quite definitely saw this in the VE introduction - it leaves a lot of them in the position of customer service ablative firewall, the designated targets of people's frustration. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
