Rob Church schreef:
If your remit is such that you are required to communicate things about a particular project, then it is within your responsibility to find that out, by asking questions, by doing research - the actual implementation plans are there, in Subversion, for anyone to see - as is the code - and by pestering the developer(s) concerned until you know everything you feel you need to.
Review his presentations, review his plans, hell - ask Brion for an interview if you think that you can compose the questions.
I do not consider that my task. At least not as comcom member. As Wikizine editor I attempt to find out what what I can were I can. And that is not a lot.
Brion is the chief technical officer of the WMF. If there is anything that should be known regarding technical matters then it should be Brion who informs whoever he is supposed to inform. And then that will also be send to comcom I hope.
Besides that I have no good experience in asking something. Bug; 7197 , 8662 and 10098
Then it sounds like the committee is malformed and needs to be created anew, with fresh volunteers, and with a proper understanding of what its purpose is. And as I suspected, the blame does lie higher.
Rob Church
What I am supposed to do as comcom member has never become clear to me. I think that was one of first questions I raised in the comcom when it was created. What I actually do is to follow the postings on the comcom mailing list, give my opinion about certain things, if I discover something relevant inform the other comcom members about it. And report the news that find out from the comcom sources that is not confidential and I believe is relevant for the community in Wikizine. Like I believe the Signpost people also do.