Hi all,

thank you for this well documented and clearly thought through
decision. Will there be some kind of code review que integrated to the
system or will this stay in phabricator. I mean, the best code review
system does not help if contributed code is not reviewed. I understand
that this is a serious amount of work, but probably investing
resources in doing the code review would be a good complement to the
implementation of a new code review system. For instance

 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4614/

is lists 41/10 incoming tasks. For me, personally that means that I
have not continued developing for several weekends since I am still
waiting for code review. In the long run this is somehow frustrating
since simple adoptions to the new API standards (developed by WMF)
take months and in the end  there is no room for new new features at
all.

All the best

pyhsikerwelt


On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 11:56 AM Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Le 06/07/2020 à 10:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
> >
> > (I also note that the page references something called "OKR" which was
> > not previously introduced to this list, as far as I know, including a
> > specific line which is not found in any public document. Can we link a
> > definition of what OKR means in the context of WMF, and ideally also
> > some public document containing the referenced line? I suppose it would
> > be some kind of annual or quarterly plan or something like that.)
>
> Hello Federico,
>
> OKR stands for "Objectives and Key Results", it is a management
> framework to keep track of objectives and their achievements (=
> "outcomes").  So that each department, team, individuals plan ambitious
> objectives and resulting outcomes which are assessed at the end of a period.
>
> If I remember properly the concept originates from Intel back in the
> 1980's and has later being adopted by Google which has let them grow
> dramatically. It eventually has spread to the technology scene in the US
> (LinkedIn, Uber etc).
>
> The first occurrence for us is probably the 2015 article which stated
> OKR was mean to be applied for fiscal year 2015 and onward:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/OKR
>
> Folks will correct me if needed, but I think the framework got formally
> introduced to the whole foundation for fiscal year 2019-2020.
> Previously we had annual and quarterly goals which is essentially the
> same thing: write down what is planned and commit to do it.
>
> You can read a short introduction by Google at:
> https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/set-goals-with-okrs/steps/introduction/
>
> :)
>
> --
> Antoine "hashar" Musso
>
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