Perhaps we could ask Damon for clarification about the team's scope of work, although my hunch is that this is still being discussed internally. I'm boldly pinging him (:
Pine On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/19/15, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > MZ, I think we should be grateful that WMF is dedicating resources to > power > > users, make suggestions to them on what we most want them to work on, and > > leave it at that. > > > > Isn't part of the criticism of this thread that the team has unclear > scope? Is the WMF actually dedicating resources to power users? > > From where I'm sitting, it looks like the every special interest group > is happy that community tech is being dedicated to them. Some people > seem to think its going to be creating bots for communities that can't > do it themselves, maintaining existing bots, provide technical support > for grant requests, fix bug requests primarily affecting elite users > fix bug requests primarily affecting unloved sister projects or even > (earlier in this thread) fix uploading of large files. > > Community-tech is not going to fix everything for everyone. Eventually > people will realize this, and its much better to be clear on the scope > up front rather then have a bunch of very disappointed users later. I > appreciate that the team is just getting off the ground, but > presumably there is some notion of what its actually going to do, > otherwise hiring for the team would be really hard. Or if it is really > trying to do everything, I predict that not working out well. > > --bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
