On 14/08/14 16:07, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
This is actually not correct. Take pending changes on
the English
Wikipedia as an example - people used to complain a lot on how RfC's
were closed, but this is the business of the community. I have never
heard anybody complaining that the trial sucked, or that PC itself
does not work properly. There was a discussion, there was a trial,
everything was properly announced, and everything from the
developers's side was done perfectly or close to perfectly.
Take Phase I Wikidata - this is smth I was actively participating in
and watched it from the close distance. Everything went smoothly, with
the Hungarian Wikipedia trial starting first, the Italian Wikipedia a
bit later, when feedback was taken into account, and then other
Wikipedias followed. Again, no problem with the developers whatsoever.
Now compare this with VE, AFT, Mediaviewer, and Flow will be probably
the next disaster of a comprable scale - despite the fact that WMF is
pretty open about Flow, and there are many people answering questions
basically in real time.
Cheers
Yaroslav
It may be that specific teams, not just legal and whatnot but also
including within engineering itself, are better at handling this sort of
thing than others. Have there been any patterns with how well things go
depending on who is involved? If so, perhaps the others could learn from
them...
-I