Hi Risker,
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 14:22 -0400, Risker wrote:
A note about the bugzilla: there's a reason why people are commenting there. They're being ignored in every other venue, and WP:CONEXCEPT (exceptions to project consensus)[1] has been invoked in regard to this. Therefore the correct place to appeal the decision is with the community of Wikimedia developers and (maybe) WMF staff, and one of the most effective ways of getting the eyes of both groups is to launch and comment on Bugzillas.
I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not. :)
Bugzilla is for technical discussions of a well-defined request, and comments that help investigating and finding a fix for a bug are very welcome!
However, "I want this too!" comments or high level / meta discussions, for example what the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole should do or should not do, are not welcome as it's simply the wrong place. I am interested in keeping the amount of bugmail low which does not deal directly with the topic of a bug report - I've worked in free and open source projects where developers ignored bugmail because "user comments are too noisy and often off-topic". That would help nobody.
I consider mailing lists and wikiforums more adequate for high level / meta discussions on strategy or direction, and I'm pretty sad to hear that you feel ignored in those places.
andre