Some notes that will be of interest to the community now that this
quarter's LevelUp is underway:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/LevelUp/Q1_2013
* If you have AbuseFilter patches that need review, please toss them to
Matthias Mullie so he can review them, towards getting AF
maintainership! Similarly, Benny Situ wants to improve his MediaWiki
core review skills, so please go ahead and ask him to review your core
patches. (This isn't on the list for this quarter, but Waldir and
Liangent are also good candidates to ask core reviews of.)
* S Page is learning to puppetize things and is working to "document
mediawiki-install management" which sounds eminently useful!
* Some folks haven't precisely defined their goals yet, but once this
quarter is over, I predict that we'll have a few more volunteers
maintaining highly-used extensions, and more developers comfortable
writing and reviewing JavaScript.
* The fundraising team is using this time to productize the
DonationInterface extension and make it much more useful to the rest of
the open source community.
A process note: for next quarter, I'm going to have a few IRC office
hours to get all this done in late March and early April. Crowdsourcing
and helping people find each other will be a lot more efficient than
being a SPOF.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation