This is an incredibly important initiative. Having procedures to ensure that we can preserve vital infrastructure (bots and tools), and a committee to oversee the process of implementing those procedures, is a crucial step to "future-proofing" Wikimedia. It certainly helps me sleep better at night :)
So, heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Bryan and the Tool Labs Standards Committee for stepping up. I promise to support your work any way I can! Cheers, Jonathan On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hopefully most of you are aware that over the last several months I > have been working with the Tool Labs community to draft policies to > help ensure that vital tools and bots can live on if their initial > maintainers lose interest or are otherwise prevented from keeping > their projects in good working order. I am very happy to announce that > we now have two policies and a volunteer working committee to help > enforce the policies. > > The Tool Labs right to fork policy [0] helps to protect Wikimedia > wikis from loss of a useful tool. It guarantees the right to fork an > existing tool project by developers who are interested in extending > and maintaining it after the original developers have lost interest. > > The Tool Labs Abandoned Tool policy [1] helps to protect Wikimedia > wikis from loss of a useful tool. It defines processes for: > * Requesting to be added as co-maintainer of a tool which has no > active maintainers (adoption) > * Requesting removal of inactive maintainers in a tool they have > adopted (usurpation) > > The Tool Labs Standards Committee [2] is a group of Wikimedia > volunteers who review, approve, and facilitate access requests for the > source code of Tool Labs hosted tools, and adoption and usurpation of > abandoned tools. Seven outstanding community members have been chosen > to form the initial committee: > * Eran Roz (User:Eranroz) > * James Hare (User:Harej) > * Huji Lee (User:Huji) > * Amir Sarabadani (User:Ladsgroup) > * Matanya (User:Matanya) > * Nick Wilson (User:Quiddity) > * zhuyifei1999 (User:Zhuyifei1999) > > There is a lot of work left to be done to establish the basic > operating procedures used by the committee. I am looking forward > working with the committee to help them get started. After some > initial setup I expect them to become self-sufficient in carrying out > the work of evaluating and processing requests from the community. > Please join me both in thanking these individuals for accepting this > responsibility and in helping them support all of us who create and > use tools to make the wikis better. > > > [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Right_ > to_fork_policy > [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/ > Abandoned_tool_policy > [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_ > Labs_standards_committee > > 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-announce mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-announce > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
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