Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > On 11/4/11 11:47 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> The long and short of my advice is this: fuck MediaWiki. If they're >> unwilling to accept your contributions, there are a lot of other FOSS >> projects that would be happy to have you. Thrilled to have you, even. I'd >> strongly encourage finding one. :-) > > And why should he listen to you, when you are unwilling to follow your > own advice?
My contributions are largely in the form of bugs and #mediawiki support, neither of which have a barrier to entry. On rare occasion, I've submitted a patch to Bugzilla just to see how the process worked. It was pretty awful, so I don't spend much time on that. If I wanted commit access, it probably wouldn't be terribly difficult for me to get it. But you can consider me part of the 99% who would contribute more if the process weren't so horribly and perpetually broken. I have no interest in submitting patches only to have them rot or, worse, submitting revisions only to have them sit for months unreviewed and undeployed. In a lot of ways, a lot of people have already followed my advice. The people who are contributing primarily nowadays are doing so for a paycheck, aren't they? :-) That's how broken the process is. The only incentive people have to deal with it is the in form of a paycheck. And, of course, those people are enabled by being able to largely (if not wholly) bypass commit access queues or review queues. Neil, I'm sure you had a point; what was it again? MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
