Brion Vibber to leave WMF, ... yeah, it's official. Options

[Alison]

It looks like Brion is moving on to another company, soon. He's announced it on his blog amongst other places. While I wish him well - he's one of the good guys (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) - I have to wonder what this is going to do for Flagged Revisions and some of the other important software updates. Knowing geeks as I do, he'll probably still work voluntarily on the sidelines - I know I would.

Anyways - I guess Jimmy's going to be hiring programmers and CTOs again soon (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/fear.gif)

[One]

Anyways - I guess Jimmy's going to be hiring programmers and CTOs again soon (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/fear.gif)

Wouldn't an officer do that?

I think the one thing we can absolutely count on (we're already seeing it with Erik's latest on the flagged revisions discussion) is Erik heaping blame for any perceived failings of the tech team on Brion, even though the tech team is also Erik's responsibility.

That does indeed seem pretty passive aggressive.

[CharlotteWebb]

As for FlaggedRevs, we'll whip the prototype into shape ASAP and take it from there.

Gee I guess he's implying that the German, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Arabic, Alemannic, Esperanto, Interlingua, and classical Chinese Wikipedias are not a good enough prototype. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif)