Thread:Talk:MediaWiki vendors/share your experience/improvements/reply (2)

I agree with Yury above. Open sourcing is often a huge effort for a small structure (true open sourcing, not just putting code somewhere and claiming it open) and there is little to no support coming from the community:
 * WM Workers have far too much work on the core to worry about third-party extensions (outside WM scope)
 * MW Volunteers have their own job and a full plate when it comes to code their own extensions and maintaining them.
 * Third Party developers do their best to help and open, but resources are scarce enough for their own dev.

It is not a blame, but it is clear than third-party development support is not a priority at WM (like it is at FB, or WordPress, or SoundCloud...). Plus WM's philosophy is not very commercial/non-free friendly.

I don't think this could be fixed (if it should be fixed) without creating jobs and positions to sustain a viable opening strategy towards third-parties.