On 08/03/14 09:15, Niklas Laxström wrote:
2014-03-08 0:39 GMT+02:00 George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
This is not disrespecting development, which is extremely important by any measure. But we're running a top-10 worldwide website, a key worldwide information resource for humanity as a whole. We cannot cripple development to try and maximize stability, but stability has to be priority
- Any large website's teams will have the same attitude.
Please do not forget the contributors who want to improve MediaWiki for their own needs. We also have to balance how much we inconvenience them to meet the requirements of WMF. In my opinion, the balance is already in favor of WMF.
-Niklas
This.
MediaWiki serves many interests, and it's already hard enough for third-party users to contribute their features/improvements upstream that most simply don't even try. We should be trying to improve this, not make it even worse for them, because these are often things that would prove widely useful even if they are not /currently/ WMF priorities (it is not uncommon for them later become such and then have to be completely reimplemented).
There is always a balance to be had, and what is reasonable for developers to worry about/think of will never cover everything even if they are specifically thinking about Wikimedia projects. But not everyone is, and this should not be a blocker on top of everything else.
-I