Hey Marcus,
Slow down. There used to be no budget and now that there is a budget they
have to grow the workforce. That is not easy and as you will have seen there
is a very ambitious program. You may be right that for some features we have
been waiting for five years, for other features we have been waiting even
longer.
Let us not go into who has waited the longest for what as it is not
productive. It is more interesting to bitch about priorities. To do that it
makes sense to first decide how to measure benefit and potential. Then have
a look at the current plans and understand them. It may require a question
or two to understand the plan. Now when we ask polite questions, we may even
get a true answer even an answer we do not like :)
The good news is, we are growing the workforce during a recession. That
means that we get talent for not too outrageous prices .. :)
Any way, the question is how to measure benefit and potential.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 2 September 2010 21:16, Marcus Buck <[email protected]> wrote:
> An'n 02.09.2010 20:58, hett Guillaume Paumier schreven:
> > They don't seem to have waited for you to get that idea ;-) See
> >
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2010-11_Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf
> That's where I got the numbers from. It speaks about hirings (the new
> hirings are already included in the number of 91 employees) but it does
> nowhere mention developers.
>
> So, was your post a statement of a Foundation employee that confirms
> that the Foundation will hire several developers whose main and only
> task it is to program new functionalities for Wikimedia, based on demand
> ratings, functionalities like the ones I named and the community has
> waited for since at least half a decade? Is that correct?
>
> Marcus Buck
> User:Slomox
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