I for one am psyched to see this news :) On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I recently transferred from the Reading Infrastructure team to the > Community Tech team [0]. The move happened because I want to spend > more of my time working with the developers who build tools and bots > to help the Wikimedia communities. I've been thinking about needs of > the Tool Labs developers for a while, and in November I finally wrote > up a proposal about a job focused on this work [1]. I was ready for a > lengthy discussion with management to defend my ideas about this need, > but to my surprise the feedback I got instead was mostly "it's about > time" and "when can you start?". My draft position proposal is now > "official" and posted on meta [2]. This project will be my major focus > on the Community Tech team, but I will also be helping out with code > review, deployments, and other things that the rest of the team is > working on. > > People watching wikitech, labs-l, and Phabricator may have noticed > that I have been poking at various things since January like a > redesign of the wikitech main page [3], a new namespace for tool > documentation [4], and generally being more active in discussing > problems and possible solutions. Now that I am working on these issues > full time I want to start talking about bigger issues. I have drafted > a "vision" document on meta [5] describing some of the larger issues > with Tool Labs (and Labs and wikitech) that are making things harder > than they could be. This vision comes with a straw dog project roadmap > that I think we could work towards. This is not a set in stone > timeline, but rather a very high level description of a series of > projects that I believe would move Tool Labs towards being an easier > environment for collaborative FLOSS projects to thrive in. I will > continue to refine these project ideas and create Phabricator tasks to > track them, but before I dive too deeply into that I would like to > solicit input on both the problems and the general solution roadmap. > The project page is on meta rather than wikitech to make it easier for > existing Wikimedians who aren't wikitech users to participate. The > talk page is open for comments [6] and I look forward to hearing about > problems and solutions that I have not yet imagined. I hope that as > the various sub-projects solidify some of you will join me in getting > the work done. > > > [0]: > https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Staff_and_contractors&diff=105580&oldid=105576 > [1]: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BDavis_%28WMF%29/Projects/Tool_Labs_support > [2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Tool_Labs_support > [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > [4]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tool_Labs_tools > [5]: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Tool_Labs_support/Tool_Labs_vision > [6]: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Tool_Labs_support/Tool_Labs_vision > > Bryan > -- > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > lab...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l