We don't seem to have an on-wiki voting process for configuration changes (or anything else) in the Wikitech community, so I'm going to go with the mailing list and Phabricator route and see if that works.
I posted a Phabricator task [0] to create a "Tool" namespace on Wikitech that would give a clear home to documentation curated by Tool maintainers and Tool users. This was marked as a duplicate of an existing request [1] to create the same namespace and automatically generate a page for each new service group. There seems to be reasonable opposition from several people (including me) to automatic page creation, but I still think the namespace makes sense. I have posted a configuration patch to gerrit [2] that would create the "Tool" and "Tool_talk" namespaces and add the "Tool" namespace to the default search. It has been suggested on the review of the configuration patch that implementation should wait for a strong show of support by the tool maintainer community. To gauge support I have created a poll (Slowvote in Phab terminology) on Phabricator [3] asking the basic question and offering "Support", "Oppose" and "Neutral" as the options. It is also possible to leave comments to explain your position in more detail, but I'm hoping that we can gauge consensus based primarily on the votes cast. I propose that we leave this vote open for two weeks until 2016-02-19 and then determine the outcome. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123429 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122865 [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/268616/ [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/V7 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
