On 28 January 2016 at 18:53, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This is especially true given that ArchComm really has
absolutely no say
in resourcing and a given feature may not have
secured funding (people,
hardware etc.)
Awww....you're mail was so great, and then you ended with this! Are you
saying that the only real power in this world belongs to people with
control of the money?
He wouldn't be the only one who thinks this. I've seen other people with
similar concerns about whether ArbComm is really in control or whether WMF
management is, because it's WMF management that actually gets to decide
what the paid Wikimedia developers (probably the majority of active
developers at this point) work on. I'm inclined to agree with them.