On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mono <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm afraid that my opposition is rather frivolous, but is the ratio of > developers to laymen enough to justify adding the "extra" burden? It seems > some others have noted that if we include a developer hub, we can't stop > there. I could propose a research hub, a librarian hub, a photographer hub. > A developer outreach program might be better as it's unlikely anyone ever > even reads the links at the bottom.
I don't see the slippery slope. All Wikimedia activities depend on a thriving technical ecosystem. I strongly support the idea of surfacing entrypoints for engineers (whether they want to work on our stuff, or their own stuff) more prominently, as many other major websites do. Making the open source nature of our projects more easily discoverable is a Good Thing. +1 for redirecting developers.wikimedia.org and developer.wikimedia.org to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub as well. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
