[Foundation-l] more classical languages wikipedias approved by langcom and board of trustees.

[David Moran]

*The Languages committee is usually pretty proud of the fact that since
they were created, not a single project that they've approved has died
or been closed as a failure. *

Huh.  I didn't know that.  That is pretty impressive, actually.

Ford MF



On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The issue is that they're never given a chance to prove
> > themselves. I'd rather a project try and fail than not try
> > at all.
>
> NA lot of our volunteers spend a lot of time and energy to maintain,
> fix, and cleanup these projects when they do fail. Our human resources
> (Stewards, SWMT, etc) should be valuable enough to us that we don't
> extend their workload for some random shot in the dark. A project
> should have more then a glancing chance at success before we give it
> the green light, or we're going to become a garbage heap of
> unmaintainable failed projects.
>
> The Languages committee is usually pretty proud of the fact that since
> they were created, not a single project that they've approved has died
> or been closed as a failure. Far from throwing out all rules, we
> should be looking to optimize their methods to reduce the number of
> false negatives.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
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