Hi Risker,
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 14:22 -0400, Risker wrote:
A note about the bugzilla: there's a reason why
people are commenting
there. They're being ignored in every other venue, and WP:CONEXCEPT
(exceptions to project consensus)[1] has been invoked in regard to this.
Therefore the correct place to appeal the decision is with the community
of Wikimedia developers and (maybe) WMF staff, and one of the most
effective ways of getting the eyes of both groups is to launch and comment
on Bugzillas.
I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not. :)
Bugzilla is for technical discussions of a well-defined request, and
comments that help investigating and finding a fix for a bug are very
welcome!
However, "I want this too!" comments or high level / meta discussions,
for example what the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole should do or should
not do, are not welcome as it's simply the wrong place.
I am interested in keeping the amount of bugmail low which does not deal
directly with the topic of a bug report - I've worked in free and open
source projects where developers ignored bugmail because "user comments
are too noisy and often off-topic". That would help nobody.
I consider mailing lists and wikiforums more adequate for high level /
meta discussions on strategy or direction, and I'm pretty sad to hear
that you feel ignored in those places.
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/