Aloha MZMcBride, Greetings All, Thanks for the nudge! Feedback is an essential part of a healthy feedback loop. :)
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 20:43, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Nobody seems to have replied to this thread in about a week, which I think > indicates a problem, so I'm gonna poke a bit here. The report is on my radar (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zakgreant/Log/2010-09-23), but is just one of many things that I should be doing. I'll take a look in at the page in a few minutes. For my part, I'm keeping my daily logs and weekly reports as a way to help ensure that interested folks can follow along with what I'm working on. ... >> For October, we'd like to draft this in public so as to get the >> information out a little sooner, and to give you all the opportunity >> to help out. Here's where we're drafting this: >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Engineering_Overview_October_2010 > > There's been no activity on that page since September 23 (a few hours after > this thread was started). It's nearly October 1. To me, that indicates a > problem. What kind of problem(s) do you feel that there are? ... > The current reality is that the paid developers/sysadmins have been isolated > from the community. You seem to be essentially asking people to guess or > make-up the current status of a lot of these projects, most of which aren't > even known about outside paid developers/sysadmins (the Virginia data > center, improved ops monitoring, etc.). For my part, I thought that this was RobLa nudging everyone in the know – staff included, as they should be on this list – to update. He's also nudged me directly to do my part. I'd guess that he's done this with others as well. > Wikimedia has been having weekly (or fortnightly) status meetings about most > of the items you listed on MediaWiki.org, but the notes are being held on > Wikimedia's installation of EtherPad. Either document this EtherPad > installation (I'm not even sure if the URL is supposed to be public, so I'll > omit it here) or stop using it and post all of the notes directly on > MediaWiki.org. These notes in EtherPad are (by far) the most up-to-date and > helpful pages for tracking the status of projects that I've seen, but I > doubt more than a dozen people outside of Wikimedia Foundation staff have > any idea they exist. Though, perhaps a bit ironically, I haven't seen (m)any > ops-related notes on EtherPad, as far as I remember, so that still might be > an area in which only one or two people can give an accurate update. I took notes during the last general engineering team meeting. I thought that consensus was to publish them. I'll nudge folks asap to get that done or at least sorted out. ... Cheers! -- Zak Greant (Wikimedia Foundation Contractor) Plans, reports + logs at http://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zakgreant Want to talk about the Mediawiki developer docs? Catch me on irc://irc.freenode.net#wikimedia-office Wed. from 16:00-18:00 UTC & Thu. from 04:00-06:00 UTC _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
