Rob Church schreef:
On 13/01/07, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
There are two ways in which you can read a proposal for change. You can read it as a criticism and you can read it as a possible road forward that intents to allow us to do even better in the future. With a person that would be tasked to support people new to MediaWiki, it is not at all a good idea to have this person be the only person that these new people are exposed to. Development is done best when there is a community of people working together. This will not change, what would change is the scale of the influx of people. You may already notice that the amount of people working on the MediaWiki code is increasing. You may have noticed that some aspects of the MediaWiki code are actively developed but are of no relevance to other groups that do not have an interest. This means that we now have several sub communities of developers all involved in MediaWiki all being part of the MediaWiki ecology.
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What part of Phil's post, or my post, was in any way counter to this general feeling that "more developers == good"?
Rob Church
Hoi, Not necessarily anything. I do agree with Phil that a good job is being done. I also think that as the amount of developers grow, as there are more Wikis deployed, it becomes increasingly important to maintain coherence. We need unity in diversity. Thanks, GerardM