On 08/03/14 09:15, Niklas Laxström wrote:
2014-03-08 0:39 GMT+02:00 George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com>om>:
This is not disrespecting development, which is
extremely important by any
measure. But we're running a top-10 worldwide website, a key worldwide
information resource for humanity as a whole. We cannot cripple
development to try and maximize stability, but stability has to be priority
1. Any large website's teams will have the same attitude.
Please do not
forget the contributors who want to improve MediaWiki
for their own needs. We also have to balance how much we inconvenience
them to meet the requirements of WMF. In my opinion, the balance is
already in favor of WMF.
-Niklas
This.
MediaWiki serves many interests, and it's already hard enough for
third-party users to contribute their features/improvements upstream
that most simply don't even try. We should be trying to improve this,
not make it even worse for them, because these are often things that
would prove widely useful even if they are not /currently/ WMF
priorities (it is not uncommon for them later become such and then have
to be completely reimplemented).
There is always a balance to be had, and what is reasonable for
developers to worry about/think of will never cover everything even if
they are specifically thinking about Wikimedia projects. But not
everyone is, and this should not be a blocker on top of everything else.
-I