[Foundation-l] [Langcom-l] Update on the process of new projects / new languages

[Casey Brown]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure what the issue is. I understand that developer time is
>  limited, and that our developers are mostly volunteers, but from what
>  I understand, new Wiki creation is not a time-intensive process. Can't
>  the backlog just be cleared once a month or so?

I have heard the complete opposite, something like "it is a very
time-intensive process, but it takes almost the same amount of time to
create one new wiki as to create a few, so we wait for a bunch to need
to be made."  (However, regarding the "bunch to be waiting in the
queue", the Language subcommittee has already taken that into account
and started making bug reports for new wikis in bulk, so there
shouldn't really be a reason for such a long wait.)

>
>  Also, I have suggested it in the past and I will suggest it again:
>  would it be possible to give powers of Wiki creation to someone who
>  has that as their main duty?

er, their *only* Wikimedia duty?  It really doesn't happen *that* much
for someone to have that as their only job, imo; but more people would
probably be helpful.

>
>  Mark
>
>
>
>  On 03/04/2008, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  >  Yes, this is the new problem. Now that the subcommittee can process
>  >  requests much more quickly, with the reforms and new tools implemented
>  >  a few months ago, the bottleneck is developers.
>  >
>  >  Quite simply, once we've approved a wiki, there's nobody who can be
>  >  bothered to create the wikis. The developer who used to do it seems to
>  >  have stopped (and never seems to be around to talk about it). The
>  >  solution is to find a developer, or preferably several, who can create
>  >  these wikis in a more timely fashion (within a century or so).
>  >
>  >   --
>  >   Yours cordially,
>  >   Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
>  >
>  >
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