On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mono monomium@gmail.com wrote:
I'm afraid that my opposition is rather frivolous, but is the ratio of developers to laymen enough to justify adding the "extra" burden? It seems some others have noted that if we include a developer hub, we can't stop there. I could propose a research hub, a librarian hub, a photographer hub. A developer outreach program might be better as it's unlikely anyone ever even reads the links at the bottom.
I don't see the slippery slope. All Wikimedia activities depend on a thriving technical ecosystem. I strongly support the idea of surfacing entrypoints for engineers (whether they want to work on our stuff, or their own stuff) more prominently, as many other major websites do.
Making the open source nature of our projects more easily discoverable is a Good Thing.
+1 for redirecting developers.wikimedia.org and developer.wikimedia.org to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub as well.