Thread:Talk:MediaWiki vendors/share your experience/improvements/reply (6)

The topic of merging contributions is quite recurrent. The WMF focus is indeed in Wikimedia projects and not 3rd parties. However, is there anything stopping 3rd parties getting organized and pushing "their" developers through the code meritocracy until having enough with merge rights?

Many patches are waiting not because of its origin, quality or disagreement in the implementation, but just because there is nobody with enough time to look at them. It is hard for an individual developer of an extension to fill that gap but maybe MediaWiki 3rd parties united could pool efforts? Imagine that such proposal would receive wide support and commitment from a bunch of MediaWiki 3rd party developers. Maybe such group could even get Wikimedia funds to help getting that work done. It is possible to argument that a healthy MediaWiki ecosystem helps a healthy Wikimedia software platform...

Time to consider a MediaWiki Group for 3rd party developers? (or Vendors, or...)