I would like to also point out a central notice banner was displayed on Mediawiki.org to logged in users.
Seddon
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:28 AM, Gergő Tisza gtisza@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Adrian Raddatz ajraddatz@gmail.com wrote:
A lack of other community members participation is perhaps half on a lack of advertising, and half on a lack of interest.
The drafting process was advertised to the point of obnoxiousness. I count 30 announcements in my inbox from Matt, and that's with Gmail merging identical emails from multiple mailing lists. There has been a discussion section in all IRL tech events. There has been an extended talk page discussion with 126 distinct accounts (36 of which have "WMF" in their name).
For comparison, AFAIK the largest discussion in the technical community so far was the one to switch from Bugzilla to Phabricator (something that affects the average contributor far, far more than the existence of a group of people who address harassment concerns), which had seen the involvement of 91 accounts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator
So IMO neither interest nor participation has been lacking. I'll also note that I find it unhelpful that this topic is being forum-shopped here instead of one of the discussion channels of the Wikimedia tech community (wikitech-l being the obvious one). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe