On 03/21/2013 09:54 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
Also, community managers generally see it as their responsibility to extract as much work from volunteers as possible
The community managers for MediaWiki (Quim and me) don't think like this. If you believe we do, please say so. :-)
and will ask a volunteer to do something whether or not a WMF staff member would be more than happy to do it.
-- Tim Starling
You're implying that we should always check whether there is a WMF staffer available and eager to do a particular task before asking a volunteer to help out. That would be impractical, and would prevent us from helping eager volunteers learn.
However, that's separate from the question in *this* thread about who is and who ought to be responsible for managing and communicating about certain kinds of blockages. I'd say, as a first approximation: release managers for WMF and for MediaWiki (so, Greg & hexmode), and product managers, who are staff members and volunteers.