Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
On 11/4/11 11:47 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
The long and short of my advice is this: fuck
MediaWiki. If they're
unwilling to accept your contributions, there are a lot of other FOSS
projects that would be happy to have you. Thrilled to have you, even. I'd
strongly encourage finding one. :-)
And why should he listen to you, when you are unwilling to follow your
own advice?
My contributions are largely in the form of bugs and #mediawiki support,
neither of which have a barrier to entry. On rare occasion, I've submitted a
patch to Bugzilla just to see how the process worked. It was pretty awful,
so I don't spend much time on that.
If I wanted commit access, it probably wouldn't be terribly difficult for me
to get it. But you can consider me part of the 99% who would contribute more
if the process weren't so horribly and perpetually broken. I have no
interest in submitting patches only to have them rot or, worse, submitting
revisions only to have them sit for months unreviewed and undeployed.
In a lot of ways, a lot of people have already followed my advice. The
people who are contributing primarily nowadays are doing so for a paycheck,
aren't they? :-) That's how broken the process is. The only incentive
people have to deal with it is the in form of a paycheck. And, of course,
those people are enabled by being able to largely (if not wholly) bypass
commit access queues or review queues. Neil, I'm sure you had a point; what
was it again?
MZMcBride