I am also surprised by this and strongly support this request! Martin has been instrumental in refactoring much of the code in the blocking system that is essential to the mission's continued success.
[image: Wikimedia-logo black.svg] *David Barratt* Senior Software Engineer, Anti-Harassment Tools Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:30 AM Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a request for granting merge privileges on the mediawiki group > (MediaWiki core and all extensions) per the gerrit privilege policy. > You can find the relevant ticket at < > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261656>. > > Martin Urbanec is a long term contributor, both on the wikis and to the > code > base. As a Steward, he has the trust of the community. His contributions > in code > include improvements to extensions like OATHAuth and CentralAuth. He is > also > helping with decoupling classes in core to improve code health, and > provides > configuration patches on behalf of the community. > > Martin has been particularly helpful in investigating and fixing a recent > security issue (T260485). Working with him on that, I was surprised to > find out > that he doesn't have +2 rights. From what I have seen, it seems empowering > him > to merge patches is long overdue. > > Gerrit: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/owner:martin.urbanec%2540wikimedia.cz > Wikipiedia: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedista:Martin_Urbanec > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
