Most lay users likely won't be able to understand
the discussions that
take place on wikitech-l. Hell most lay users don't even know it exists.
Lay users don't write templates either. People who write templates are
wizards. Templates make my eyes bleed and my mind hurt, and I've been
developing for quite a long time.
While I won't weigh in on whether or not the
choice of Lua was our
decision to make or not, I don't think that the argument that editors
should join wikitech-l is a good one.
I don't think the editor community has much reason to participate. The
template creator community does. They are more than technical to
understand things on wikitech-l.
Perhaps the ambassadors mailing list? But wikitech-l?
No.
I am curious though to see if we ever even mentioned this idea to the
editors on at least enwiki though. I think such knowledge would greatly
help everyone else here in evaluating whether or not we included the
community enough on this decision.
The "community" is not a single thing. The community is made up of
hundreds of sub-communities. If people are interested in technical
decisions, they need to participate where technical decisions are
made.
- Ryan