On 2010-09-03, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
On 9/3/10 4:55 PM, Robert Leverington wrote:
It's very dissapointing to see many of the suggestions discarded almost immediatley by most of the staff members replying as "unrealistic".
I can't speak for others, but I have to say that the idea of having paid developers without a space for them to work together in person is very unrealistic.
In the past all paid developers worked remotely (at least, not in the same office as one another), and there still are paid developers who work remotely. Additionally, all volunteers work remotely. Based on my experience with MediaWiki I would say that development in the past was significantly more efficient and community involved than it is currently.
I can understand how this suggestion in particular might not be entirely realistic, but it is only one of the suggestions that have been put forward and regardless of whether it is taken as a whole has some amount of merit in the context of this discussion.
Robert