Timwi wrote:
Not wanting to spark a flamewar here or anything, but
since you've been
"perfectly honest" in a public forum, maybe I can take this opportunity
to be perfectly honest publicly too. If you hand out such criticism, you
should be able to take it too.
I don't know much about the quality of your software changes, so I won't
comment on that, but I'm afraid you're not exactly the best communicator
either. I have always found it hard to get useful or necessary
information from you, and often you reply to me with a snide or rude
remark.
Granted. I'm not always as helpful or communicative as I should be, and
I do have a tendency to be rude or snippy at times. This is something
I'm trying to watch since I've ended up sort of in charge of this little
program of ours, but there's certainly room for improvement.
I am quite concerned that, apparently, the MediaWiki
developer team has
become more bureaucratic and imperialistic since I last did any active
development. I sure hope it's not going to end up like LiveJournal, with
several volunteer developers offering their patches, but the Elite Club
leaving them to rot on BugZilla, ignoring them completely.
I'd certainly like it not to be too bureaucratic. I know we've got a
number of patches open on our bugzilla that need to get reviewed and
either accepted or definitively rejected (or better yet, reworked as
drop-in extensions).
Here are currently marked open patches:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/shortcut/patches
and there are probably others that aren't marked with the patch keyword.
Please, please go through that list and review and either clean up or
advocate any that you want to make sure don't fall through the cracks.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)