On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
Let me recommend something. Pay Anthony Dipierro the sum of $5,500, give him server access, give him eight weeks, and if he doesn't produce a full history dump of the English Wikipedia, then perhaps his penance could be a one-year ban from Wikimedia mailing lists?
That's a bit presumptuous of you, Greg.
I don't know the background of this, so I don't understand why this would be presumptuous of Greg.
The key question is whether the full history dump was ever considered to be a project that needs WMF funding to be allocated, as opposed to letting it be solved by the normal open source model.
Lots of people complain about the full history dump, but what importance has the WMF put on it, comparatively to other needs? How are these WMF software projects managed? Does Brion report yearly on key infrastructure and software dev objectives each year?
While Gregs recommendation to have WMF grant to develop certain functionality, I would prefer that WMF offers bounties.
I've just noticed that bounties are mentioned on this strategy proposal.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/strategy/wiki/Proposal:Track_bugs_in_...
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