[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck

[Domas Mituzas]

Hello!

> And we would do well to refuse doing such thing. Foundation would  
> become
> a huge bottleneck and community will then begin complaining that we  
> are
> hindering the development of the projects.

Well understood and appreciated.

Yesterday I tried to do one tiny tiny change (es.wikipedia wanted to  
switch their timezone).
Of course, after last flames it was fun to make a circus out of it  
(forced few people - sysops and bureaucrats to 'sign in blood'), but  
here again, accurately interpreting votes and resolutions in other  
languages, where there were multiple votes on same page, as well as  
Great Walls of Text, was nearly impossible.

Lots of things can be rolled forward and backwards, so usually no  
harm is done - except that it takes time and can cause some  
frustrations, if caught in the middle of heated debate.

So, we usually have just to trust that people who come and ask for  
things can really represent community, and are not going to undermine  
something in evil ways.
Usually we like to trust, and love to trust. But sometimes a single  
campaign against can shatter it all.

-- 
Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]