Thank you for this, Keegan - I'm looking forward to how this is iterated. It looks to be going well so far!
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Keegan Peterzell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please note that what I'm about to talk about is informative to how the > Wikimedia Foundation develops MediaWiki software. > > As you may have seen, engineering in the Wikimedia Foundation is working to > define the software product development process to be used internally [0]. > As part of this, I'm working on developing a list of guiding principles for > the software development process [1]. For examples of what this looks like > for some other organizations, please see [2] and/or [3]. > > There is an initial draft of principles up that resulted from the above, > located on MediaWiki.org [4]. These are high-level principles that are > meant to be overarching reminders of good practice for WMF engineering, a > sort-of poster on the wall. Vagrity is intentional to an extent as a > result. As noted on the wiki page, this list is being developed in spirit > with Wikimedia movement [5] principles, the Wikimedia Foundation's Guiding > Principles for operation [6, and a survey of some staff to find out what is > important to them in the process [7]. > > Comments, questions, thoughts, and whatnot are welcome on the talk page > [8]. > > 0. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_product_development_process > 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_and_development_principles > 2. http://www.unicefstories.org/principles > 3. https://www.gov.uk/design-principles > 4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_and_development_principles/Draft > 5. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement > 6. > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles > 7. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_and_development_principles/Survey > <~ still to be filled in > 8. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Design_and_development_principles/Draft > > -- > Keegan Peterzell > Community Liaison, Product > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Rachel diCerbo Director of Community Engagement (Product) Wikimedia Foundation Rdicerb (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rdicerb_%28WMF%29> @a_rachel <https://twitter.com/a_rachel> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
