On 9 August 2014 15:23, svetlana <svetl...@fastmail.com.au> wrote: > utter and complete rubbish as it excludes the community and leaves all > development within corporate hands; All against free software philosophy > and/or community involvement >
Gilles' proposal does no such thing. On the contrary, what he proposes opens up development to an even wider audience, and strictly does not preclude volunteers from doing their own development just as before. > programming should be a hobby, like editing articles > Idealistically, sure. But then again, idealistically everything would be a hobby and we wouldn't need to work. Alas, we do not live in a world of ideals. :-) Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l