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