On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 3:19 PM Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: For 3 reasons: 1. While MW is open source, what gets deployed on the WMF servers is the legal and moral responsability of the Foundation.
They have responsibility but it's limited. 2. The WMF has an 8-person "Community Liaisons" team that is dedicated to "inform the communities during the whole process of development of said software, and facilitate its adoption." [1] For me, that means that they should be the ones that make sure that changes that impact million of pages don't get left out, even if the developer forgets to notify anyone. It's not correct. community liaisons can't check every patch to see if it's going to impact users (and most patches have effect on users, even indirect). They built a protocol and told developers to inform them when they think the change is going to impact users *significantly*. 3. The average wikipedian does not seem to make the difference between volunteer developers and employees of the WMF (this is a personal opinion and I might be wrong). It's horrifyingly wrong. Lots of stuff is being done by either volunteers or staff in their volunteer capacity. You need to correct this view. not to blame WMF, right? Best _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
