[Foundation-l] meta-discussion for new project proposals (was Proposal for new project: Faith Wiki)

[Yann Forget]

Hi,

Le Tuesday 28 June 2005 14:52, Elisabeth Bauer a écrit :
> Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> > I think it is time to have a serious meta-discussion regarding what it
> > going to take in order for the Wikimedia Foundation to accept a whole
> > new project, and what guidelines should be in place, as well as a
> > roadmap for what would have to be accomplished in order for such a
> > project to move from a "gee, this would be a cool idea" to "here is the
> > server space, let's roll!"
>
> [snipped good suggestions]
>
> Sorry to say this, but in my opinion we shouldn't accept any new
> projects at all for the next two years but instead work on improving the
> existing ones. There's enough work to do and even the time we discuss
> new projects would be better invested in discussing and solving our
> current problems.

I agree 100% with this.
I think we have enough problems to solve for the time being.
IMO we should make it clear that no new projects will be accepted for at least 
a year. I have the feeling that we are running forward instead of trying to 
solve existing problems.

> greetings,
> elian

Regards,
Yann
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