Creation of new projects do indeed fall under site requests.  Just make
sure to link to consensus that the project is needed/required/approved.



Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> Do the creation of new projects qualify as "configuration requests" ?
> Thanks,
>       Gerard
> 
> PS at the moment 5 are in front of the board of trustees.. It would be cool
> to have them go life by Wikimania
> 
> 
> 2009/8/6 Aryeh Gregor
> <[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]>
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Tisza Gergő<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> More generally, I think the procedure for responding to site requests
>>> (if there is a procedure at all) needs fixing. My impression is that
>>> some requests are resolved quickly, and the rest leave the range of
>>> whatever method shell people use to monitor new requests, and are
>>> never picked up again (much like recent changes patroling on the
>>> wiki). Some sort of backlog of open site requests might help the
>>> situation. (Again, these are one-liners that need neither much thought
>>> nor much effort, nor are they terribly frequent - there were 3 site
>>> requests alltogether this year for huwiki, which is a top20 wikipedia
>>> - so I'm sure it's an attention problem, not a resource problem.)
>> Isn't Rob supposed to be doing these?  This should be the full list:
>>
>>
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=shell&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
>>
>> There are a lot of things on there that aren't simple fixes, though.
>> Maybe the one-line changes are lost in all the clutter.  Things like
>> "Enable .odt upload" or "Install PdfHandler extension" probably need
>> consideration and testing, and things like "Configuration files should
>> have versioning system" or "Support OpenID extension on all wikimedia
>> projects" would require nontrivial development effort.
>>
>> Perhaps we should make a new component "Configuration requests",
>> mandate that it only be used for simple one-line changes, and ensure
>> that there's a good default assignee who will clear the backlog every
>> workday?  Either by making the change, or marking LATER/WONTFIX if
>> it's against policy or doesn't have demonstrated consensus, or
>> changing the component if it's not a simple fix.  Something like that.
>>  It used to be we didn't really have the manpower to keep on top of
>> shell bugs, but that should no longer be true.
>>
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