"Marcus Buck" <wiki(a)marcusbuck.org> wrote in message
news:4C81A467.7070908@marcusbuck.org...
I didn't deem any project unnecessary and I
didn't pick any holes. All
the projects are useful. But if I say "I'd like more focus on project X"
and the answer is "our resources are limited and we want to work on
projects Y and Z first" than my options are to either provide more
resources (which I can't) or to argue that X is more important than Z.
I have tried to argue for the projects that I feel are important on
several occasions, but the answer was "yeah, nice idea, do it yourself".
Putting feature requests on Bugzilla is ineffective too
(<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164> exists since 2004
and still people invest thousands of working hours removing diacritics
in category sorting keys). And that's why I made suggestions to focus
more on development of features.
I think that's pretty much the crux of it. You have been trying to opine
that X is more important than Z, and not, in the general opinion,
succeeding. You certainly make the case that X is important, we generally
all agree on that. Numerous people have explained why various Z, which you
have tried to portray as less important, are in fact either vital for the
Foundation's continued operation, or more closely aligned with the
Foundation's goals and will achieve more for the amount of time and money
which must be spent on them. Ultimately, you haven't provided any concrete
argument why X is *relatively* more important than Y or Z. You won't
achieve that by talking up the merits of X and talking down the merits of Z,
that's not a *relative* comparison. Why is CentralInterwiki more important
*than*, say, LiquidThreads?? I'm not convinced that that's a question which
can be sensibly debated, in either direction; and without it, this thread
isn't really going anywhere interesting.
--HM