> [...] Perhaps people
> who get most of their news from this mailing list are [...]
Why does this matter? What other sources are there?
It seems you're saying there is a divide between the main development
community (on this list) and some other unspecified group which
communicates by some other unspecified means. If so, what you need is
not a dictator or an architect or a process, it's a reunification.
Whoever has knowledge of such a divide can help with simple steps, in
particular by publishing a "map" outlining this divide on a
mediawiki.org page.
> [...] the vast majority
> of the WMF staff developers, even if they were unpopular here on this
> list? Given our staff/not ratio [...]
See above.
> [...] It could be that the general pessimism about the direction
> of MediaWiki (or lack thereof) is not shared out here. [...]
See above.
> have their own ideas about
> what things should be priorities, but have no expectation that those
> ideas will be considered for resourcing.
The solution here seems rather straightforward, if not simple: ensure
the architecture committee actually feels empowered. The WMF could
promise to not invest resources on something that the committee
officially declared a bad idea, for instance.
Nemo
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