On 8 Sep 2014, at 08:22, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 September 2014 05:46, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
If it is good software, the projects will *ask* for it to be deployed, like they did with LiquidThreads, and users will want to use it on their user talk even if the wider community isnt ready to migrate.
This is the key point.
Those of us who presently use talk pages to get the work done. What is going to make us *love* Flow, for all its imperfections, and demand to have it for ourselves? What's Flow's killer feature for us?
This really is the critical point.
If the WMF is developing new software that the community gets behind and explicitly asks to be deployed, then it’s doing the right thing.
If it’s having to force new software on the community against its objections, then it’s shooting itself in the foot.
Thanks, Mike