2010/10/15 Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]>: > The number one thing that > volunteers are unhappy about is non-deployment of volunteer code. > Why? Because the only reason for their participation is so that their > code should be deployed. When their code is neglected while other > people's code is deployed immediately, solely because those other > people happen to work for Wikimedia, that will result in a great deal > of frustration no matter what attitude anyone approaches it with. And > the solution is simple: Wikimedia has to allocate the resources to > deploy volunteer code continually, just like employee code. Which it > has, and that decision will have a much greater impact on the > staff-volunteer relationship than any change in attitude possibly > could. > +1
I whole-heartedly agree with the analysis that deploy backlog is at the hear of this. I have some gut feelings I can't word very well right now that say the "solely because they're not WMF" isn't completely fair, but what you've stated multiple times in various guises is true: what matters is perception, fair or not. If volunteers *feel* ignored, that's bad. We can all go "oh but we're not really ignoring /just/ you, we're ignoring others too!", that's not very convincing. We need to come up with a plan that takes us back to regular (weekly?) deployments. I think cleaning up the CR backlog is an uncontroversial first step. What I have in mind personally is to have this move to regular deployments coincide with the 1.17 release, but that should be discussed in a separate thread I guess. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
