On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
We still eventually want to reach the point where the criteria is not the amalgam of rules above but a simpler one based on intent, expertise-sharing and consensus-building: "If any engineering department or community developer in collaboration with the other core competencies (engineering, product, design, and community) are willing to commit to ongoing maintenance of a feature, then no one group should block it."
I'd actually say that this paragraph more accurately describes both historical and current practice than your preceding enumeration, except that certain competencies (product/design) have historically been under-represented in the dev process and should be more consistently looped in now that we have more folks who wear those hats (both within WMF and beyond).
Erik