On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Marcus Buck <wiki(a)marcusbuck.org> wrote:
It certainly can be improved. As I said, my main
concern is not
bugfixing, but development. Like the implementation of a common image
repository, parser functions, single user login to name some from the
past. The HTML5 upload is smaller, but it's a new feature and not a bugfix.
Feature requests go on Bugzilla too.
Nikola Smolenski has done great work on Interwiki
transclusion. But
nothing has happened since two years. If I were a member of the tech
department at Wikimedia, I'd be enthused and would put all my energy in
reviewing his code, straigthening out any remaining problems and making
it real as soon as possible. I mean, making interwiki bots obsolete,
making obsolete like hundreds of thousands edits per day, that would be
an amazing improvement, wouldn't it? This dormancy worries me.
There is no dormancy. You are making the cardinal error of feature
requests: assuming that if you think something is important, everyone
else must too. Quite simply, other people aren't as interested as you
in this particular feature. They're working on other things that they
feel are more interesting or important. In the end, the people who
are doing the work, or paying for it, call the shots on where
resources are invested -- there is nothing that can change that.