On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
We're initially setting up Selenium for use by the usability initiative, with the idea of extending it to the rest of the software when we have time/resources for that. You're right that this should probably have been communicated earlier, but until a few weeks ago the status was "Ryan's patiently waiting for the Selenium servers to arrive and get set up".
Okay, but it seems like several employees (including you) already knew this, and several volunteers (including me) did not. This implies that there's some communications channel that employees are reading, but not volunteers. Is it some public place that we just don't visit? If so, where? Or do you have internal face-to-face meetings, private mailing lists, something like that? Assuming Wikimedia intends to maintain a bazaar development model, it's quite important that interested volunteers can be on the same page as employees.