[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck
Birgitte SB
birgitte_sb at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 12 18:35:05 UTC 2008
--- Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > And we would do well to refuse doing such thing.
> Foundation would
> > become
> > a huge bottleneck and community will then begin
> complaining that we
> > are
> > hindering the development of the projects.
>
> Well understood and appreciated.
>
> Yesterday I tried to do one tiny tiny change
> (es.wikipedia wanted to
> switch their timezone).
> Of course, after last flames it was fun to make a
> circus out of it
> (forced few people - sysops and bureaucrats to 'sign
> in blood'), but
> here again, accurately interpreting votes and
> resolutions in other
> languages, where there were multiple votes on same
> page, as well as
> Great Walls of Text, was nearly impossible.
>
> Lots of things can be rolled forward and backwards,
> so usually no
> harm is done - except that it takes time and can
> cause some
> frustrations, if caught in the middle of heated
> debate.
>
> So, we usually have just to trust that people who
> come and ask for
> things can really represent community, and are not
> going to undermine
> something in evil ways.
> Usually we like to trust, and love to trust. But
> sometimes a single
> campaign against can shatter it all.
>
> --
> Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]
>
>
Is there any way for b'crats to automatically put on
the e-mail list for any bug filed for their wiki?
This combined with a 5-day mandatory waiting period
between filing and fixing a bug without the express
support of a b'crat should be able to keep things
running smoothly.
Birgitte SB
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