This is a good effort; the uptick in visible development work, even outside the flood of edits to status-review and status-deferred, was noticed and appreciated. This is pretty much exactly what we've asking for a long time - more attention to community requests. This is a major step in the right direction.

In addition to the benefits the Community Asks Sprint brings to the community, there are also some internal benefits: this is an opportunity for engineers, product managers, and designers to work on issues they may not get to encounter on a regular basis and to touch on areas of the product they wouldn’t normally touch.

I'd love to hear a bit more about what the impression was of perhaps the more niche parts of the system. For instance, there was work on the election nomination page, and the review queues, neither of which are relevant to e.g. Teams and don't see much work on a regular basis. Did people learn a bit more about how the public system works?

One final note is that I was a bit disappointed by the initial set of comments on this post. They were, by and large, much more negative than I was expecting or felt was deserved. This was a major effort, involving over 30 different people, towards working on things that we've asked for, the lack of which has in the past been blamed for increasing tension between staff and community. So when steps were taken to fix that on the staff end, it was disappointing that it wasn't reciprocated with some positivity - or at least not outright negativity - in the initial community response.
If we want to see improvements to the platform and the community/company relationship, we need to be recognizing good faith efforts and responding in kind, not being immediately negative and potentially jeopardizing future similar efforts. Hopefully we can do better.

This is a good effort; the uptick in visible development work, even outside the flood of edits to status-review and status-deferred, was noticed and appreciated. This is pretty much exactly what we've been asking for a long time - more attention to community requests. This is a major step in the right direction.

In addition to the benefits the Community Asks Sprint brings to the community, there are also some internal benefits: this is an opportunity for engineers, product managers, and designers to work on issues they may not get to encounter on a regular basis and to touch on areas of the product they wouldn’t normally touch.

I'd love to hear a bit more about what the impression was of perhaps the more niche parts of the system. For instance, there was work on the election nomination page, and the review queues, neither of which are relevant to e.g. Teams and don't see much work on a regular basis. Did people learn a bit more about how the public system works?

One final note is that I was a bit disappointed by the initial set of comments on this post. They were, by and large, much more negative than I was expecting or felt was deserved. This was a major effort, involving over 30 different people, towards working on things that we've asked for, the lack of which has in the past been blamed for increasing tension between staff and community. So when steps were taken to fix that on the staff end, it was disappointing that it wasn't reciprocated with some positivity - or at least not outright negativity - in the initial community response.
If we want to see improvements to the platform and the community/company relationship, we need to be recognizing good faith efforts and responding in kind, not being immediately negative and potentially jeopardizing future similar efforts. Hopefully we can do better.