Jonathan Morgan, 27/07/2015 23:05:
I was also a bit surprised to hear that process held up as a positive example. But it was before my time as well, so I don't have direct knowledge, just what Liam related to me.
Vector was probably the first case where MediaWiki turned into a real battlefield, with WMF on one side and volunteers (i.e. all the traditional MediaWiki users and developers) on the other. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/49535/
Of course there are still lessons to learn from the process and Trevor's email proves some were learnt. :) I'm not sure what exactly would the the things to copy or drop, but as someone involved in communication of the initiative in 2009–10, I can say that: * explaining the project was much easier than it is with most WMF software projects now; * WMF got much better at releasing data and analysis (when they exist)!
Nemo