On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote:
> We still eventually want to reach the point where the criteria is not the > amalgam of rules above > but a simpler one based on intent, expertise-sharing and consensus-building: > "If any engineering department or community developer in collaboration with > the other > core competencies (engineering, product, design, and community) are willing > to commit > to ongoing maintenance of a feature, then no one group should block it." I'd actually say that this paragraph more accurately describes both historical and current practice than your preceding enumeration, except that certain competencies (product/design) have historically been under-represented in the dev process and should be more consistently looped in now that we have more folks who wear those hats (both within WMF and beyond). Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
