Hi,
What would be the purpose of this organisation and separate community,
exactly? Has there been any demonstrated need or even want for such an
organisation amongst the community it would proportedly serve?
I ask in particular because as a third-party sysadmin myself, it's hard
enough following all the relevant discussion and information that
concerns releases as it is already. Adding another organisation on top
of that, with its own lists and websites to check and follow, and
another layer of community to go through to get things upstreamed, seems
highly premature when we can't even consolidate the basics (release
notes, date announcements, even testing) at home.
Considering we also have no guarantee that any new organisation would be
more receptive to the needs and concerns of the third-party end users
than the WMF is currently, and there would still be things we would need
to go to the WMF directly about anyway (thus making it even harder to
figure out where to go for something), I find this all very worrying.
-I
On 04/08/14 12:40, Markus Glaser wrote:
Hello everyone,
the Wiki Release Team invites you to get involved in a much needed effort to
build a separate entity that cares about the third party use of MediaWiki. We
ask for your involvement and participation because, as a community, we need to
drive MediaWiki!
Be a part of something big!
1. Join our mailing list of interested people on wikireleaseteam.org [1]
2. Attend our first meeting [2]:
Wikimania London
Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 11:30AM GMT
Hammerson Room and/or webstreaming
3. Help us help you by providing feedback and comments as we work through an
environmental scan and development roadmap
With the formation of the release team, a first step has been taken to separate
the releases from the deployment process. Now is the time to tackle the task of
building and working our way towards an organisation that cares for MediaWiki
as a software product. This organisation will foster the MediaWiki third-party
community, facilitate the exchange of ideas and resources among the third-party
users, advocate the third-party needs, and advise the MediaWiki development
from the third party perspective.
Spreading open knowledge is not just about content, but also about tools.
However, third party users of MediaWiki have very specific needs that are
naturally of minor interest to running Wikimedia sites. These include the
installer, support for different platforms and databases, integration with
other software, extension dependencies, and packaging, just to name a few.
Our mission, far from being complete, is just beginning. With your help and
involvement we can make an impact to improve MediaWiki for the third party
community.
Best,
Mark Hershberger and Markus Glaser
Wiki Release Team
[1] http://wikireleaseteam.org/
[2]
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_about_a_MediaWiki_Consortium%3F
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