On 11/03/2012 08:53 AM, Leslie Carr wrote:
If you think this is a major problem, these questions are more appropriate for wikimedia-l as they are not technical and instead policy :)
Fair point. I have continued on the topic of email addresses in code contributions, which is indeed a technical topic.
About the rest, let me just reply to the previous answers:
- Note that Chad and Antoine are saying different things. With the big and still heavily growing Engineering team at WMF it would be useful to have a recommendation for fresh & new fires. I bet even the oldtimers and outsiders will be happier with some guideline in place.
- If there is a wall perceived between WMF employees and the rest then that is a problem regardless of what email addresses people use or avoid. Ubuntu/Canonical and Fedora/RedHat come to mind as good examples of OSS projects where employees and non-employees collaborate and fight ;) regardless of the domain of your email address.
BUT overall I don't perceive such barrier here either. Wikimedia-MediaWiki feel like a healthy community with the usual degrees and side of collaboration, fun, noise and rants. But I agree with Leslie that thee is a better place to discuss this, if needed. Let's continue with the discussion of the code contributions since that one is really on-topic here. Thanks!
-- Quim