[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

Hi, On 1/1/22 12:10, Asaf Bartov wrote: It seems to me there are *very few* people who could change status quo, not much more than a handful: the Foundation's executive leadership (in its annual planning work, coming up this first quarter of 2022), and the Board of Trustees. If the goal is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

Hoi, Only Pallas Athena arrived fully mature in armour from the head of Zeus. We will never have a complete plan when all we do is based on the existence of budgets, it failed us miserably. The way forward is to own our infra structure including all software and decide its worth, its risc and if

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

Hoi, There should be several mechanisms determining what work gets done. What Asaf describes is a budget based process. Another mechanism is centred around responsibility. The granularity of responsibility does not negate that the buck stops at a certain level. When responsibility has no

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

luxury car. Sincerely Galder From: Asaf Bartov Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 10:08 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Cc: Wikimedia developers ; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

Yes, I did not purport to offer an easy solution. I tried to clarify *what needs to happen* for significant progress on these issues, without suggesting that it is easy to make that happen. As I mentioned, a new CEO is beginning work this week, and one of the (many) items on her to-do list is to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

I appreciate all of the comments; still unsure where to more persistently host the conversation, but for now I posted this still-arbitrary list on Commons . (adding other items mentioned in this thread) SJ - *File formats*: Support

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

Hi Asaf, That's a good response, but I'm not sure it provides a practical way forward. How can volunteers bring this issue to the attention of the WMF leadership to get the allocation of the time of Wikimedia staff who can take ownership implement changes here? Presumably emails on these

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

Writing in my volunteer capacity: On Sat, 1 Jan 2022, 08:43 Amir Sarabadani wrote: Honestly, the situation is more dire than you think. For example, until a couple months ago, we didn't have backups for the media files. There was a live copy in the secondary datacenter but for example if due

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery) On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 12:42 AM Strainu wrote: > So where is the best current place to discuss scaling Commons, and all that > entails? My impression is that we don't have one. All w

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 12:42 AM Strainu wrote: > > So where is the best current place to discuss scaling Commons, and all > that entails? > > My impression is that we don't have one. All we hear is "it needs to be > planned", but there is no transparency on what that planning involves or > when