Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Brian Wolff
On Mar 25, 2015 1:18 PM, "Gilles Dubuc" wrote: > > > > > Does this mean there will no longer be a multimedia team/nobody responsible > > or working on what the multimedia team was working on previously? > > > > We'll keep supporting the extensions that multimedia used to cover, in > terms of addre

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Gilles Dubuc wrote: > As far as active development goes, some things are still in the pipeline, > like addressing technical issues that affect UploadWizard's funnel. This is > assigned to the API team but isn't the top priority for the coming quarter > (I think it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Gilles Dubuc
> > Does this mean there will no longer be a multimedia team/nobody responsible > or working on what the multimedia team was working on previously? > We'll keep supporting the extensions that multimedia used to cover, in terms of addressing emergencies. This will probably be done by *the people fo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 25/03/2015 02:45, Rob Lanphier ha scritto: Hi folks, First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) We're making a few changes effective in April for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Brian Wolff
On Mar 24, 2015 10:45 PM, "Rob Lanphier" wrote: > > Hi folks, > > First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you > aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, > feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) > > We're making a few changes effecti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread Pine W
Thanks for the updates. Speaking of multimedia, what is the likelihood of Wikipedia's capabilities supporting interactive content like "Listen to Wikipedia" in the near future? I can think of many articles in which reader engagement would benefit from interactive content. Thanks, Pine __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread S Page
A reorg that makes sense without TLA buzzword decoding \o/ (Are you sure you didn't leave out the "MediaWiki Platform Community API Core Features Development" team :) ) Best wishes and high hopes for y'all. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l ma

[Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi folks, First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) We're making a few changes effective in April for Platform Engineering, which you all care deeply