Ryan Lane wrote: >>> It's in the strategic plan: >>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2010-2011_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers >> >> I don't see how the link you provided addresses the post you were replying >> to at all. >> > As Roan pointed out, I was telling you that a full time Bugmeister was > in the annual plan, if you had bothered to click the link, and > searched for "Bugmeister".
Please don't be snide and wrong at the same time. Pick one. I don't see anything in that link (or in the related PDF) about a Bugmeister position being full-time. (Though feel free to quote a specific section if you think I've missed something.) As I said earlier, it's pretty common for Wikimedia to hire folks on a non-full-time basis[1] (especially in tech roles), which is why I found it odd that this particular position is intended to be full-time. Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: >> Given that Wikimedia already employs a number of contractors who don't work >> full-time, I think the fact that this position would be full-time is really >> odd. > > I think a full-time position is really needed here. There are lots of > bugs filed, and it's not trivial to triage them, try to extract more > information from users, assign them to the right people, and make sure > those people fix them. Plus, the bugmeister could actually fix some > of the bugs in their spare time. Plenty of work for a full-time > position. Personally, I can't see it taking more than a few hours each week (and I say that as someone who's done a fair bit of bug triaging, assigning, and cleanup in this particular tracker). Though I suppose it's likely that the scope of the role would expand over time past Bugzilla. >From discussions with some of the people involved in creating this position, it seems that Wikimedia is specifically looking for someone who _isn't_ a (PHP) developer because that type of person would want to fix these bugs themselves and there's a serious concern that a developer would very likely quickly get bored with the job after a few weeks. That's my understanding, at least. MZMcBride [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
