On Mar 25, 2015 1:18 PM, "Gilles Dubuc" <gil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > Does this mean there will no longer be a multimedia team/nobody responsible > > or working on what the multimedia team was working on previously? > > > > We'll keep supporting the extensions that multimedia used to cover, in > terms of addressing emergencies. This will probably be done by *the people > formerly known as multimedia*, because for now there isn't any better pick > than people who've worked with those extensions as first responders on > breaking issues. That might change when a reactor team is formed and > staffed later down the line. > > As far as active development goes, some things are still in the pipeline, > like addressing technical issues that affect UploadWizard's funnel. This is > assigned to the API team but isn't the top priority for the coming quarter > (I think it's 3rd in the list, but someone might know better). > > More ambitious projects like structured data on commons will need a > dedicated team. Resourcing for such projects will depend on > organization-wide priorities. > > My humble opinion is that it's a good thing to have less catch-all teams > like "core" and "multimedia" and rather have teams focused on narrower, > well-understood scopes. Multimedia was a vague term and it made us spread > ourselves thin across many unrelated extensions and projects. It also gave > the illusion that we were going to take care of everything, but we were > really too small to undertake ambitious things like bringing video support > into the modern era or making commons data structured. As much as it must > feel disappointing that these projects are on the backburner, they already > were, because of how small the multimedia team was. Maintaining the > illusion wasn't a good thing, I think. >
I'm a little sad to hear that, but I agree 100% with what you are saying. As the saying goes, its better to do a couple things well then to do too many things but poorly. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
