"Marcus Buck" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > I didn't deem any project unnecessary and I didn't pick any holes. All > the projects are useful. But if I say "I'd like more focus on project X" > and the answer is "our resources are limited and we want to work on > projects Y and Z first" than my options are to either provide more > resources (which I can't) or to argue that X is more important than Z. > > I have tried to argue for the projects that I feel are important on > several occasions, but the answer was "yeah, nice idea, do it yourself". > Putting feature requests on Bugzilla is ineffective too > (<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164> exists since 2004 > and still people invest thousands of working hours removing diacritics > in category sorting keys). And that's why I made suggestions to focus > more on development of features.
I think that's pretty much the crux of it. You have been trying to opine that X is more important than Z, and not, in the general opinion, succeeding. You certainly make the case that X is important, we generally all agree on that. Numerous people have explained why various Z, which you have tried to portray as less important, are in fact either vital for the Foundation's continued operation, or more closely aligned with the Foundation's goals and will achieve more for the amount of time and money which must be spent on them. Ultimately, you haven't provided any concrete argument why X is *relatively* more important than Y or Z. You won't achieve that by talking up the merits of X and talking down the merits of Z, that's not a *relative* comparison. Why is CentralInterwiki more important *than*, say, LiquidThreads?? I'm not convinced that that's a question which can be sensibly debated, in either direction; and without it, this thread isn't really going anywhere interesting. --HM _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
