On 13/01/07, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There are two ways in which you can read a proposal
for change. You can
read it as a criticism and you can read it as a possible road forward
that intents to allow us to do even better in the future. With a person
that would be tasked to support people new to MediaWiki, it is not at
all a good idea to have this person be the only person that these new
people are exposed to. Development is done best when there is a
community of people working together. This will not change, what would
change is the scale of the influx of people. You may already notice that
the amount of people working on the MediaWiki code is increasing. You
may have noticed that some aspects of the MediaWiki code are actively
developed but are of no relevance to other groups that do not have an
interest. This means that we now have several sub communities of
developers all involved in MediaWiki all being part of the MediaWiki
ecology.
[snip the rest]
What part of Phil's post, or my post, was in any way counter to this
general feeling that "more developers == good"?
Rob Church