<quote name="Alex Monk" date="2016-01-28" time="19:07:09 +0000"> > On 28 January 2016 at 18:53, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is especially true given that ArchComm really has absolutely no say > > > in resourcing and a given feature may not have secured funding (people, > > > hardware etc.) > > > > > > > Awww....you're mail was so great, and then you ended with this! Are you > > saying that the only real power in this world belongs to people with > > control of the money? > > > He wouldn't be the only one who thinks this. I've seen other people with > similar concerns about whether ArbComm is really in control or whether WMF > management is, because it's WMF management that actually gets to decide > what the paid Wikimedia developers (probably the majority of active > developers at this point) work on. I'm inclined to agree with them.
This is similar to the concern/line of reasoning that lead to all of the questions about whether or not "WMF senior leadership" will be in active attendance at the Dev Summit. -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
