On 5/19/15, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
MZ, I think we should be grateful that WMF is dedicating resources to power users, make suggestions to them on what we most want them to work on, and leave it at that.
Isn't part of the criticism of this thread that the team has unclear scope? Is the WMF actually dedicating resources to power users?
From where I'm sitting, it looks like the every special interest group
is happy that community tech is being dedicated to them. Some people seem to think its going to be creating bots for communities that can't do it themselves, maintaining existing bots, provide technical support for grant requests, fix bug requests primarily affecting elite users fix bug requests primarily affecting unloved sister projects or even (earlier in this thread) fix uploading of large files.
Community-tech is not going to fix everything for everyone. Eventually people will realize this, and its much better to be clear on the scope up front rather then have a bunch of very disappointed users later. I appreciate that the team is just getting off the ground, but presumably there is some notion of what its actually going to do, otherwise hiring for the team would be really hard. Or if it is really trying to do everything, I predict that not working out well.
--bawolff