Original mail not sent to list, re-sending. I hate e-mail.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't think that Ryan was trying to shut you down... I think he was trying to direct your concerns to where they would be heard by the right people and in the right context.
Realistically, the non-techie strategy and budget people are not going to follow wikitech-l.
Realistically, most of the non-administrative techie people are not going to follow the strategy wiki. I'd hope that it's techie administrative people who decide whether a tech position should be part-time or full-time, though, not non-techie administrative people. (Are there techie strategy and budget people too, or are they all non-techie?)
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:58 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Personally, I can't see it taking more than a few hours each week (and I say that as someone who's done a fair bit of bug triaging, assigning, and cleanup in this particular tracker).
I used to read all the bug mail up until a couple of years ago, presumably when the volume was much lower, and I think I spent a few hours a week handling a lot less than all the bugs. If we do hire a full-time person and that's really more than enough, so that every new bug filed gets a substantive response and is triaged and forwarded to the right people within one business day, and our only problem is what to tell the bugmeister to do with the rest of their time -- then that's a good problem to have! Much better than hiring someone part-time and finding they can't keep up.