On 03/21/2013 09:54 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
Also, community managers generally see it as their
responsibility to
extract as much work from volunteers as possible
The community managers for MediaWiki (Quim and me) don't think like
this. If you believe we do, please say so. :-)
and will ask a
volunteer to do something whether or not a WMF staff member would be
more than happy to do it.
-- Tim Starling
You're implying that we should always check whether there is a WMF
staffer available and eager to do a particular task before asking a
volunteer to help out. That would be impractical, and would prevent us
from helping eager volunteers learn.
However, that's separate from the question in *this* thread about who is
and who ought to be responsible for managing and communicating about
certain kinds of blockages. I'd say, as a first approximation: release
managers for WMF and for MediaWiki (so, Greg & hexmode), and product
managers, who are staff members and volunteers.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation