On 14/08/14 16:07, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
This is actually not correct. Take pending changes on the English Wikipedia as an example - people used to complain a lot on how RfC's were closed, but this is the business of the community. I have never heard anybody complaining that the trial sucked, or that PC itself does not work properly. There was a discussion, there was a trial, everything was properly announced, and everything from the developers's side was done perfectly or close to perfectly.
Take Phase I Wikidata - this is smth I was actively participating in and watched it from the close distance. Everything went smoothly, with the Hungarian Wikipedia trial starting first, the Italian Wikipedia a bit later, when feedback was taken into account, and then other Wikipedias followed. Again, no problem with the developers whatsoever.
Now compare this with VE, AFT, Mediaviewer, and Flow will be probably the next disaster of a comprable scale - despite the fact that WMF is pretty open about Flow, and there are many people answering questions basically in real time.
Cheers Yaroslav
It may be that specific teams, not just legal and whatnot but also including within engineering itself, are better at handling this sort of thing than others. Have there been any patterns with how well things go depending on who is involved? If so, perhaps the others could learn from them...
-I