Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> writes: > Just because they hire the “best and the brightest” does not mean > there are not people out there who are just as intelligent, if not > more, but do not or cannot work for the WMF for whatever > reason. Restricting Archcom to WMF employees is just about the > stupidest thing you could do for an open source software project.
Exactly. It ensures that those of us using or supporting MediaWiki outside of the WMF have no voice in the direction of MW. I am not qualified for the ArchCom, but I am familiar with several engineers working in government or running private wiki farms or their own businesses who I think would be qualified. I think the WMF has hired the people it can hire, but that doesn't mean all ArchCom-level knowledge is found only in Foundation employees. Thinking that only the WMF has high-level MW knowledge and ability is a myopic view that threatens the future of MediaWiki as software that is useful outside of the WMF. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
