On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 at 23:12, Uwe Herzke uwe.herzke@web.de wrote:
This should be '''The''' Community wishlist, one for the whole bunch of devs that are supposed to be working for us editors. Ther is up to now no option to make any wishes to all those myriads of devs, whose workforce is wasted on such useless and unwanted pet-projects like FLOW
Flow or more general userfriendly talk pages has been something people wanted since 2004. The problem the foundation ran into is that post 2004 talk pages camed to be used for more than just debate.
or ReBrand
Doesn't take dev time. I may disagree with it but its not a dev timesink.
or whatever, instead of doing the main thing they are supposed to do: Held the editors get the projects working and maintaining the software.
Eh readers matter. Thats why all the work that goes into mobile. The conflict between the ideal mediawiki for editors vs the ideal one for readers is an ongoing issue.
They survey should lead to a bucket list of items, that need to be fixed before any new pet-project by any new C-level non-editor gets any ressources allocated.
The problem is deciding the difference between a "pet-project" and things that are needed but the editing community hasn't noticed.