2012/4/4 Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com:
I understand it, that only employees of the foundation are actually permitted to write the code which is going to be deployed to wmf sites. If that is true, it should be noted somewhere, so that volunteers (the people who aren't employees / paid for that) can know that spending time on creating such an extensions, will likely result in it never going to be implemented, thus it's not anything they are suggested to do.
This is not correct - extensions by volunteers are deployed. To cite just two notable examples, Cite and CategoryTree. AFAIK, neither Ævar nor Daniel are or were paid by the WMF; Daniel works at WM-DE, but that's a separate organization.
That said, better documentation about the Foundation's process for deciding what is deployed would be quite useful.
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