Yes, I did not purport to offer an easy solution. I tried to clarify *what needs to happen* for significant progress on these issues, without suggesting that it is easy to make that happen.
As I mentioned, a new CEO is beginning work this week, and one of the (many) items on her to-do list is to improve and rationalize the Foundation's annual planning process, and cross-departmental planning and decision-making. Let's give her some time
and wait for some guidance on this question of venue, i.e. how and where communities may *effectively* express needs and affect priorities.
In the meantime, I repeat my suggestion that adding non-technical concise statements of impact to each issue would be a big help. For example, I (and many of you) know the impact of our slow/broken video conversion and upload workflows, but it would be
helpful to add to SJ's "Bulk conversion for video uploads (videoconverter / video2commons are broken)" an impact statement such as "this is deterring video uploads from casual contributors".
Cheers,
A.
(volunteer capacity)