On 5/19/15, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
MZ, I think we should be grateful that WMF is
dedicating resources to power
users, make suggestions to them on what we most want them to work on, and
leave it at that.
Isn't part of the criticism of this thread that the team has unclear
scope? Is the WMF actually dedicating resources to power users?
From where I'm sitting, it looks like the every
special interest group
is happy that community tech is being dedicated to them. Some
people
seem to think its going to be creating bots for communities that can't
do it themselves, maintaining existing bots, provide technical support
for grant requests, fix bug requests primarily affecting elite users
fix bug requests primarily affecting unloved sister projects or even
(earlier in this thread) fix uploading of large files.
Community-tech is not going to fix everything for everyone. Eventually
people will realize this, and its much better to be clear on the scope
up front rather then have a bunch of very disappointed users later. I
appreciate that the team is just getting off the ground, but
presumably there is some notion of what its actually going to do,
otherwise hiring for the team would be really hard. Or if it is really
trying to do everything, I predict that not working out well.
--bawolff