Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:52 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
This topic has come up several times and each time, it seems like the people with any kind of power are conspicuously absent. Where is Danese? Is she subscribed to this list? Is she reading it?
As I read it, EPMs are directly beneath Danese and presumably have some say in how tech resources are used (thus "Manager"):
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Engineering_Program_Manager
Software EPMs listed at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Technology (excluding Usability) are Alolita Sharma, Tomasz Finc, and Rob Lanphier. Robla is the EPM in charge of General Engineering, which as I understand it is the group that includes most of the staff developers participating in this discussion. He's consistently commented on all of these threads, and is clearly reading them. So I'm pretty sure the issue isn't being ignored.
Yes, RobLa definitely deserves props for being active on this list (as do many other staffers).
I'm still trying to understand the nature of this problem. I think that's what's bothering me the most at the moment. It's frustrating that I still can't quite figure out exactly what the issue is [with code deployment being so slow] and why it isn't being resolved (even if I don't hold out much hope for an actual resolution being implemented). To me, the solution seems a lot more obvious than it does to others, a point that I'm still struggling with in my head.
MZMcBride