On 03/21/2013 09:54 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > Also, community managers generally see it as their responsibility to > extract as much work from volunteers as possible
The community managers for MediaWiki (Quim and me) don't think like this. If you believe we do, please say so. :-) > and will ask a > volunteer to do something whether or not a WMF staff member would be > more than happy to do it. > > -- Tim Starling You're implying that we should always check whether there is a WMF staffer available and eager to do a particular task before asking a volunteer to help out. That would be impractical, and would prevent us from helping eager volunteers learn. However, that's separate from the question in *this* thread about who is and who ought to be responsible for managing and communicating about certain kinds of blockages. I'd say, as a first approximation: release managers for WMF and for MediaWiki (so, Greg & hexmode), and product managers, who are staff members and volunteers. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
