[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck

[Birgitte SB]

--- Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> > And we would do well to refuse doing such thing.
> Foundation would  
> > become
> > a huge bottleneck and community will then begin
> complaining that we  
> > are
> > hindering the development of the projects.
> 
> Well understood and appreciated.
> 
> Yesterday I tried to do one tiny tiny change
> (es.wikipedia wanted to  
> switch their timezone).
> Of course, after last flames it was fun to make a
> circus out of it  
> (forced few people - sysops and bureaucrats to 'sign
> in blood'), but  
> here again, accurately interpreting votes and
> resolutions in other  
> languages, where there were multiple votes on same
> page, as well as  
> Great Walls of Text, was nearly impossible.
> 
> Lots of things can be rolled forward and backwards,
> so usually no  
> harm is done - except that it takes time and can
> cause some  
> frustrations, if caught in the middle of heated
> debate.
> 
> So, we usually have just to trust that people who
> come and ask for  
> things can really represent community, and are not
> going to undermine  
> something in evil ways.
> Usually we like to trust, and love to trust. But
> sometimes a single  
> campaign against can shatter it all.
> 
> -- 
> Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]
> 
> 

Is there any way for b'crats to automatically put on
the e-mail list for any bug filed for their wiki? 
This combined with a 5-day mandatory waiting period
between filing and fixing a bug without the express
support of a b'crat should be able to keep things
running smoothly.

Birgitte SB


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