Andrew, I think one general issue is the lack of transparency (and community involvement) in the decision making discussions. Not the documentation of the decisions once done. That's good to have but if we have transparency as a guiding principle, we should include that in the discussions too.
My 2c
Andrew Otto otto@wikimedia.org schrieb am Fr., 7. Okt. 2022, 18:40:
FWIW, the WMF Data Engineering team has had some discussions about this in the past, and we decided that all decisions and real work doc has to be either in Phabricator or on a Wiki. We use Slack or IRC to discuss things, but if we come to a conclusion, we try to summarize and document the conclusion in Phab. I think we do this well with most things, but not as well as we should with annual and quarterly planning docs (I think these are in google docs and better works).
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 10:54 AM Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 1:14 AM Taavi Väänänen hi@taavi.wtf wrote:
As a final note, I've been referring to the #wikimedia-cloud-admin IRC channel and the cloud-admin mailing list as public venues. While technically true (the IRC channel and the mailing list archives are public), I don't think those are mentioned anywhere on Wikitech and cloud-admin subscription is moderated for non-staff (and I have a vague memory of my subscription being rejected before I had Toolforge admin access). I think there's some work to be done here to make it easier for people to get involved.
The cloud-admin@lists.wikimedia.org mailing list has always had public archives (which are much more useful now that we have mailman3) but closed membership. The intent of this list was never to be a forum for community discussion, but we did consciously choose to make the archives open so that interested parties could see the discussions that were held here.
Bryan
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