On 22 August 2012 20:18, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
In addition, a lot of people think we should be paying someone to do
some mediawiki development. Writing extensions that we think are
important and that the WMF isn't supporting, for instance. You could easily fill a day a week with that.
This is a silly idea, as I said before, and we should forget about this for a moment. Focus on our own tech needs.
This point does seem to be a crux for the whole business. (Well, it was around in January 2011 when I was taking minutes of the discussion, and apparently hasn't gone away.) When Bob Dylan sang the line "Your debutante just knows what you need but I know what you want", he had apparently foreseen this very issue. Does anyone have the debutante's phone number?
Charles