On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 19:20, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, Code review should be a strictly technical process surely. However the community CANNOT decide on everything. The WMF has one codebase for MediaWiki and it explicitly defines with long lead times the things it is working on. It does invite the community to be involved in the process.
It does not. It first designs a software and implements it, and then /tweaks/ it. Community should be asked what it'd like much, much earlier. Community participation in product design is currently impossible.