I support strongly Chad comment. The motivation of most of volunteers like me is to see their code deployed. There are a lot of extensions like ProofreadPage that have been written and are maintained without nearly any help from the WMF Feature department. If you assert something like "everything should be controlled by WMF Feature department", requesting volunteer work has, I think, no more any sense and it's a sentence of death for project like Wikisource that relies strongly on community written and maintained extensions.
Sorry for these hard words but it's, I think, the success in the long term of some projects like Wikisource that is at stake. Thomas (User:Tpt) Le 4 oct. 2013 à 07:45, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: >> [snip] It's incredibly encouraging >> especially >> to our volunteer devs to see the fruits of their labors actually being used >> :) > > Indeed - and Extension:ShortUrl which I wrote as a volunteer getting > deployed made me immensely happy. Also made the folks at the (often > neglected?) Indian language communities where it was deployed happy. > Let's not bottleneck 'what we can deploy' with 'how many people we are > paying'. > -- _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
