On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Given that Wikimedia already employs a number of contractors who don't work full-time, I think the fact that this position would be full-time is really odd.
I think a full-time position is really needed here. There are lots of bugs filed, and it's not trivial to triage them, try to extract more information from users, assign them to the right people, and make sure those people fix them. Plus, the bugmeister could actually fix some of the bugs in their spare time. Plenty of work for a full-time position.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
If you'd like to discuss this, I think the strategy wiki is the right spot. Not wikitech-l.
Things should be discussed wherever there are the most interested, informed people. Developers are some of the people who are most interested and informed about what resources are being allocated to things like bug handling, so wikitech-l is a good place for a discussion on this, IMO (although not the only legitimate place).