On 2010-09-02, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > Over the last couple of years, MediaWiki development has moved from > being almost entirely volunteer-based to having a large contingent of > paid developers. A lot of people have noted that this has led to a > lot of work being done without much community involvement. Just for a > basic statistic, in July, I estimate that about 90% of > non-localization commits to extensions/UsabilityInitiative/ were by > paid employees. (I use "employee" loosely in this post, to include > all paid staff, such as contractors.) By contrast, about 25% > (ballpark figure) of non-localization commits to phase3/ were by paid > employees, and the number of volunteer commits to phase3/ was much > higher than the total number of commits to UsabilityInitiative, so > this isn't just a matter of community members not doing as much work > overall. > > ...
I'd just like to repeat what others have said, and note that I agree with Aryeh's comments and replies 100%. It's very dissapointing to see many of the suggestions discarded almost immediatley by most of the staff members replying as "unrealistic". These are well thought out points and I think a decent amount of consideration should be given to all of them, regardless of anyones predispositions. Robert _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
