Roan Kattouw wrote:
As always we do of course need to be careful to not want to solve this "internally" between WMF staff, but have a public discussion with everyone regardless of whether they happen to be paid. However, my impression is that this particular topic is one that mainly involves staff and that it would be acceptable to hammer something out internally and propose that on wikitech-l as something of a draft, in this particular case. I'd be very interested to hear how unpaid developers feel about that, as some of them have called out this practice as undesirable back in September.
I'm not a developer, but I can say this: from the outside, there's the appearance that a major part of the problem is that nobody seems to really be in charge. I see this problem in both Wikimedia and MediaWiki code development.
MZMcBride