Hey Marcus,
Slow down. There used to be no budget and now that there is a budget they
have to grow the workforce. That is not easy and as you will have seen there
is a very ambitious program. You may be right that for some features we have
been waiting for five years, for other features we have been waiting even
longer.
Let us not go into who has waited the longest for what as it is not
productive. It is more interesting to bitch about priorities. To do that it
makes sense to first decide how to measure benefit and potential. Then have
a look at the current plans and understand them. It may require a question
or two to understand the plan. Now when we ask polite questions, we may even
get a true answer even an answer we do not like :)
The good news is, we are growing the workforce during a recession. That
means that we get talent for not too outrageous prices .. :)
Any way, the question is how to measure benefit and potential.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 2 September 2010 21:16, Marcus Buck <wiki(a)marcusbuck.org> wrote:
An'n 02.09.2010 20:58, hett Guillaume Paumier
schreven:
They don't seem to have waited for you to get
that idea ;-) See
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2010-11_Wikimedia_Foundation_Annua…
That's where I got the numbers from. It speaks about hirings (the new
hirings are already included in the number of 91 employees) but it does
nowhere mention developers.
So, was your post a statement of a Foundation employee that confirms
that the Foundation will hire several developers whose main and only
task it is to program new functionalities for Wikimedia, based on demand
ratings, functionalities like the ones I named and the community has
waited for since at least half a decade? Is that correct?
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox
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