On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFC: > > > > * Text extraction > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Text_extraction> > > > > The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on > > irc.freenode.org at the following time: > > > > * UTC: Wednesday 21:00 > > * US PST: Wednesday 13:00 > > * Europe CET: Wednesday 22:00 > > * Australia AEDT: Thursday 08:00 > > > > Please note that the time has changed. It is an hour earlier so that > > it will be easier for people in Europe to attend. > > We (collectively) need to get a lot better about not merely signaling > what is coming up, but what the results of these decisions are. If > you look here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings > > ...you could be forgiven for thinking the RFC meetings are something > we do anymore. Basically, you have to be subscribed to this mailing > list, and then, if you miss the time, fish through the logs here: > https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/ > > ...and hope that some glitch hasn't wiped out the logs, since I don't > think there are any service level expectations for those logs. > > I send this mail not to beat up on the Architecture Committee, but in > the hopes that we can find some wikignome volunteers to help out. To > the extent that it's not realistic to duplicate mailing list > announcements to mediawiki.org, we should probably just say "join > wikitech-l to receive announcements on meeting timing", and generally, > if we need to teach people how to fish rather than serving them > beautifully-plated caviar, let's actually say we're doing that rather > than setting up the expectation that they'll be able to wait for > someone to post something on the wiki. > > Anyone willing to chip in? > > Rob > > See a few more comments/explanations/questions at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1107 ("Document on-wiki the Architecture RfC meetings from July onwards") from a few weeks ago. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
