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Dmitry Utkin

Another way to phrase this is "how can we get Evan to stop working on what he thinks is the most important thing, and instead to work on what we think is the most important thing?"

No, actually another way to phrase this is "how can we get Evan to start doing frontend stuff in Elm every day".
Your answer on another question about Evan's involvement in NRI day-to-day tasks is practically 0 is the saddest thing I've learned today. I might be wrong, but this is harmful to prioritization.

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Richard Feldman

I think you're underestimating the amount of feedback he gets from all different corners of the community as to what the most important thing is. There are so many people with different priorities who think their particular thing is the most important.

If Evan worked directly on our production code base, he'd probably feel pushed to bump priority for the things that matter most to us, at the expense of all the other voices he hears. As members of this community, that would be a very short-sighted preference for us to have.