Hoi,
This is simply not true. At Wikimania there were several sessions where the
topic was what will the technical underpinnings be of our software. It was
also discussed to some extend what kind of effect things may have on a
community. When you are in those conversations you realise that many
complications are considered; it is not easy nor obvious.
Thanks,
GerardM
NB there is not one community, there are many with often completely
diverging opinions. Technically it is not possible to always keep backward
compatibility / functionality. We are not backward we need to stay
contemporary.
On 11 August 2014 10:36, svetlana <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 19:20, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Code review should be a strictly technical process surely. However the
> > community CANNOT decide on everything. The WMF has one codebase for
> > MediaWiki and it explicitly defines with long lead times the things it is
> > working on. It does invite the community to be involved in the process.
>
> It does not. It first designs a software and implements it, and then
> /tweaks/ it. Community should be asked what it'd like much, much earlier.
> Community participation in product design is currently impossible.
>
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