A clarification: Josephine is a grantee, not a volunteer. I've seen situations go both ways, with WMF making decisions that it should leave to the community (such as with MediaViewer) as well as declining to pay for projects that would be worth funding (such as the previous decision to drop support for this app.) I am hopeful that under Katherine's leadership, WMF will be more supportive of community decisions and priorities.
Pine On Jun 21, 2016 05:43, "Dmitry Brant" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > To be clear, the Commons app is still very much in the hands of volunteers. > The WMF has simply allowed the app to use the Commons logo, which will make > the app more recognizable and discoverable by users. In fact, this app > *used* to be an official WMF project before we discontinued it nearly two > years ago, and was subsequently picked up by these excellent volunteers. > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Paul Laan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I think this is good news, but it also makes me wonder the following: > > > > We saw it happen a couple of times the last months, now the app is in > > official WMF hands how long will it take before they kick the volunteers > > out, and let the WMF devs work on it? > > > > I would rather have seen this volunteer (and other) volunteer projects in > > the hands of volunteers. Every year the WMF asks for more money, and take > > away more and more things the volunteers used to run for free. > > > > I would rather see things moved to volunteers instead of the other way > > arround. > > > > Paul Vlaan > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > -- > Dmitry Brant > Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) > Wikimedia Foundation > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering > _______________________________________________ > 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
