Martin has also done (and continues to do) amazing work as a Czech community ambassador for the Growth team; tangential to those responsibilities, he's contributed fixes and features to the GrowthExperiments extension and helped with code reviews as well.
+1 from me! Kosta -- Kosta Harlan (he/him) Sr Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 5:34 PM David Barratt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
