Personal opinion: as I recall, a big chunk of that scorn came from WMF engineers. I appreciate it wasn't your intent, but the way you're phrasing things here makes it look very much like you're saying 'hey, I bumped your salary, throw some of your time my way' - which is not how it works. Ideas should be worked on or not based on whether they can stand on their own, not whether or not the writer thinks people owe them.
I agree that this is something that should be worked on: I disagree that the idea, or your request for engineer time, has anything to do with the question Rachel actually asked, which was (to rephrase it): 'community people, what ideas do you have for better ways for us to communicate around software?' 'Work on my thing' does not answer that question. On Saturday, 14 February 2015, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rachel diCerbo wrote: > >... > > Community Engagement is continuously considering effective ways of > > interacting with you around product development and would love your > > suggestions. What kinds of communications from WMF would you like to see? > > Please volunteer to co-mentor my GSoC proposal: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review > > There is absolutely no way I can possibly do this without a co-mentor > from the WMF or WEF. It's not a hard task, and one of the major > benefits I just learned yesterday is a robust implementation of > per-word text attribution, which amazingly still hasn't been available > to the wider community in a way that handles reverted blanking and > text moves since WikiTrust went offline. Maribel Acosta, Fabian > Floeck, and Andriy Rodchenko did a suitable replacement algorithm in > 2013, but it hasn't been folded back into the Wikimedia Utilities > distribution. > > Please, WMF engineering staff, remember 2.5 years ago when I was > literally the only one publicly arguing that you should be paid market > rate for tech workers instead of lower nonprofit worker salaries? I > took so much public abuse and scorn for that for over a year until it > happened. Please consider giving back by co-mentoring the accuracy > review GSoC proposal. It shouldn't take more than a few hours per > week over the summer. > > Best regards, > James Salsman > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > ?subject=unsubscribe> -- Sent from my mobile computing device of Lovecraftian complexity and horror. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
