I wanted to say "volunteer projects" which are affiliated with various
wikimedia projects

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a difference between wikimedia projects which are somehow
> related to wikimedia projects, and foundation projects which are
> funded by foundation. But this difference is only about people and
> money, so why should we have a different wiki for that
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't understand why? Wikitech is a perfect place for bots
>> documentation as well, especially when it comes to large bots operated
>> by many people, these needs to have documentation so that they can be
>> overtaken by someone else in case the original person who launched
>> bot, doesn't have a time to maintain it.
>>
>> Why should it be for foundation only projects?
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Ryan Lane wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if it makes sense to have the Labs/OpenStack/Nova management
>>>>> interface on this same "new wikitech" wiki though. This means that all the
>>>>> community projects running inside labs will/might use this same wiki to 
>>>>> document
>>>>> their internal structure - which can (and should be) a lot of projects 
>>>>> that are
>>>>> not Wikimedia engineering projects.
>>>>>
>>>>> Documentation for labs as being a Wikimedia project makes sense, but the 
>>>>> actual
>>>>> projects inside and management maybe don't fit well inside the new 
>>>>> wikitech. I
>>>>> like that of the labsconsole.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean they aren't *staff* engineering projects? Labs is meant to
>>>> be a stepping stone. For most projects, the idea is that people will
>>>> implement something in Labs and it'll get moved into production. The
>>>> documentation for that project will then be the documentation for Labs
>>>> and production.
>>>>
>>>> One of the biggest reasons I wanted to merge the wikis is because I
>>>> feel that volunteer operations engineers should be documenting their
>>>> infrastructure changes in the same place as staff operations
>>>> engineers.
>>>>
>>>> - Ryan
>>>
>>> No, that's not what I meant.
>>>
>>> Contributions (from whomever) to for example the production cluster puppets 
>>> (through gerrit), that may have an RFC on wikitechwiki ahead of time sounds 
>>> awesome. Stuff can be proposed by whomever, and then implemented by 
>>> whomever. Then tested in labs and merged/pushed to production.
>>>
>>> I was refering to projects that will not be foundation engineering 
>>> projects, or at least do not intend to be that.
>>>
>>> *cut 2 paragraphs*
>>>
>>> ...when trying to come up with examples, it turns out that those examples   
>>> (Tool-Labs: early extension development, bot hosting, slow-query tools, ..) 
>>> probably wouldn't put their documentation on either wikitech or 
>>> labsconsole, so nevermind.
>>>
>>> -- Krinkle
>>>
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