On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is the exact kind of attitude the op-ed in the
Signpost is addressing.
When making major feature decision, such as redoing the entire templating
system, we cannot just say to editors "oh, if you want some input, go and
join our mailing list". That's just a passive-aggressive way of pushing
editors out of the conversation. How many purely editors, i.e., not
developers, are on this list actively participating in discussion?
Which communities? Engaging N editing communities just doesn't
scale. Nor, to be perfectly honest, do I think its the appropriate
venue. I expect people to join the places technical discussions take
place (this list +
mediawiki.org), just as I expect I should have to
join a wiki's discussion forums to discuss content/community things.
I'm perfectly willing to engage anyone on anything I work on, but I
don't want to repeat myself in 20 different places.
A long time ago, technical discussions happened on Meta. It was
moved off of Meta since there's enough content to warrant its own
wiki. Perhaps we can improve on getting notices out to people (hey,
we're discussing FooBar, come talk with us [here]), but trying to
shift the discussion to hundreds of individual wikis just doesn't work
for me.
-Chad