Yes, I did not purport to offer an easy solution.  I tried to clarify *what needs to happen* for significant progress on these issues, without suggesting that it is easy to make that happen.  

As I mentioned, a new CEO is beginning work this week, and one of the (many) items on her to-do list is to improve and rationalize the Foundation's annual planning process, and cross-departmental planning and decision-making.  Let's give her some time and wait for some guidance on this question of venue, i.e. how and where communities may *effectively* express needs and affect priorities.  

In the meantime, I repeat my suggestion that adding non-technical concise statements of impact to each issue would be a big help.  For example, I (and many of you) know the impact of our slow/broken video conversion and upload workflows, but it would be helpful to add to SJ's "Bulk conversion for video uploads (videoconverter / video2commons are broken)" an impact statement such as "this is deterring video uploads from casual contributors".

Cheers,

   A.
   (volunteer capacity)

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 10:45 PM Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
I appreciate all of the comments; still unsure where to more persistently host the conversation, but for now I posted this still-arbitrary list on Commons.  (adding other items mentioned in this thread)      SJ

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File formats: Support high-demand formats – e.g. CSV, CML, + hundreds of other open tickets 
Uploads:  Improve bulk, large, and video uploads.
   + Bulk conversion for video uploads (videoconverter / video2commons are broken)
   + Upload Wizard upgrades (timeouts, batch renaming, batch imports)
- Downloads:  Fix multi-download (Imker is broken) 
   + Make public dumps (stale since 2013)
- Video playback:  Debug + roll out the videojs player
Search:  Bring CQS back up.  Implement a noauth option for tools
General: Move to a blazegraph alternative (for wqcs) 
   + Images: Update thumbor and librsvg  ||  redesign the image table  
- Curation: Simpler content assessment workflow, like en:wp's (QI/VP doesn't scale)

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