Thread:Talk:MediaWiki vendors/share your experience/improvements/reply (7)

I'm not sure the current +2 policy really allows it: there might be a sort of catch 22, for instance, in that a dev with a focus on third party wikis may not get +2 on core because of lack of code review experience on core, and committers may not submit commits at all for such devs to look at because they know they'll be ignored; after all, even commits specifically focused on Wikipedia are just left rotting for many months.

And yes, improvements for third parties do get blocked by contrasting WMF needs, although of course in those cases the ideas on what is an improvement are often controversial (see the recent skins saga).