Erik Moeller wrote in part:
Patience. This week we will formulate the Commons roadmap together. Maybe we can move up the creation of a wiki to a point when not all but only the most essential features exist; perhaps not a fully working version of single sign-on yet and just very basic image sharing. If the final version is ready in 3 months, maybe we can get a beta version up and running in 2 or 3 weeks. How does that sound?
For me, the faster it goes, the better it sounds, I guess. Since you are the developer that is doing the work here, I really don't have a basis for insisting that you rush things.
I'm looking forward to a central repository for images, so that I'll have a place to search for them when I need some. And I'm looking forward to being able to share those images directly, rather than having to copy them over when I decide to use one. And I'm looking forward to a single username system (although that is not as big a deal for me as the earlier items). And I'm looking forward to many more things in the pipeline.
So on the one hand, I don't want to see one of these things (X) delayed just because another of these things (Y) is not ready yet -- even if this means that X is clunky until Y comes along. But on the other hand, you and the rest of the developers need to programme these features in a way that works for you.
You know, in one or three years, I will be done with my PhD; and depending on just what sort of teaching jobs I can find, I hope to have a lot more free time in my evenings and weekends. If so, then I plan to start doing some work on MediaWiki (as well as, obviously, getting back to a good rate on articles). Maybe ''then'' I will be in a position to demand that development speed up, if I am actually doing some work to help with the development! ^_^
-- Toby