Board Thread:Lua Help/@comment-24473195-20150504194158/@comment-24473195-20150531071345

Well, someone reminded them recently. But I don't know if that's a staff member or not. Though it seems obvious that you're right, they've recently focused considerable resources into getting the new infoboxes out. The thread at community central has quick responses and updates from more than 4 different staff members, so someone higher up really wants this done ASAP.

So it seems they  changed the policy, weren't voldev's only allowed to fix bugs. Backporting isn't necessarily fixing bugs, but rather adding new features.

Anyway, I'm curious about the wikia's scribunto extension, do they have so many inconsistencies with mediawiki's scribunto core version that they can't simply copy and paste the code, or is it because they rely on an old mediawiki version and some of the needed methods aren't currently available?

P.S. I had also sent a message to support indicating that at least one voldev was willing to tackle it, maybe that had some minor impact :).