On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM,
MZMcBride<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Given that Wikimedia already employs a number of
contractors who don't work
full-time, I think the fact that this position would be full-time is really
odd.
I think a full-time position is really needed here. There are lots of
bugs filed, and it's not trivial to triage them, try to extract more
information from users, assign them to the right people, and make sure
those people fix them. Plus, the bugmeister could actually fix some
of the bugs in their spare time. Plenty of work for a full-time
position.
Personally, I can't see it taking more than a few hours each week
(and I say
that as someone who's done a fair bit of bug triaging, assigning, and
cleanup in this particular tracker). Though I suppose it's likely that the
scope of the role would expand over time past Bugzilla.
From discussions with some of the people involved in creating this position,
it seems that Wikimedia is specifically looking for someone who _isn't_ a
(PHP) developer because that type of person would want to fix these bugs
themselves and there's a serious concern that a developer would very likely
quickly get bored with the job after a few weeks. That's my understanding,
at least.
MZMcBride
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