Hi Risker,

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 14:22 -0400, Risker wrote:
> A note about the bugzilla:  there's a reason why people are commenting
> there. They're being ignored in every other venue, and WP:CONEXCEPT
> (exceptions to project consensus)[1] has been invoked in regard to this.
>  Therefore the correct place to appeal the decision is with the community
> of Wikimedia developers and (maybe) WMF staff, and one of the most
> effective ways of getting the eyes of both groups is to launch and comment
> on Bugzillas.

I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not. :)

Bugzilla is for technical discussions of a well-defined request, and
comments that help investigating and finding a fix for a bug are very
welcome!

However, "I want this too!" comments or high level / meta discussions,
for example what the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole should do or should
not do, are not welcome as it's simply the wrong place. 
I am interested in keeping the amount of bugmail low which does not deal
directly with the topic of a bug report - I've worked in free and open
source projects where developers ignored bugmail because "user comments
are too noisy and often off-topic". That would help nobody.

I consider mailing lists and wikiforums more adequate for high level /
meta discussions on strategy or direction, and I'm pretty sad to hear
that you feel ignored in those places.

andre
-- 
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/


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