Context: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_20%25_policy

Tim Starling wrote:

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"20% time" is an attempt to correct broader related trends, but perhaps we need a more project-oriented approach within our 20% time policy in order to encourage mentoring and start the pipeline of contributed extensions moving again.

MZMcBride wrote:

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I asked about this "policy" a few months ago: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/058665.html.

Rob never replied and the thread died. There's a difference between having a page on MediaWiki.org and having a policy. From what I've seen, it's mostly the former, though I'd be thrilled if someone can prove me wrong.

Antoine Musso wrote:

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Which is an entirely different subject. You might want to send a new message just for that :-] Then I will happily reply about my specific case.

MZMcBride