Hello world!
This is the first post to the toolhub-dev mailing list. Right now,
this list has a small number of subscribers who are helping us
bootstrap the concept of an "advisary council" for the development of
Toolhub [0]. The initial council membership is:
* Bryan Davis, Principal Software Engineer, Technical Engagement
* Srishti Sethi, Developer Advocate, Developer Advococacy
* Keegan Peterzell, Tech Collaboration Specialist, Community Programs
* Giuseppe Lavagetto, Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Service Operations
* Sam Reed, Security Engineer, Security
We are hoping to add a few more folks from outside the WMF to the
council in the coming weeks. I am especially interested in finding a
technical volunteer who is a native speaker of a RTL language. I would
also like someone who is an active volunteer editor to help advise on
the user experience questions that will come up on using the tool,
especially for patrolling workflows that it will need. Birgit and
others will be helping us find these folks, but if any of you have
ideas about specific people to fill open roles, specific
sub-communities to think about recruiting from, or roles that are
missing please do speak up.
I have made a few Phabricator tasks about high level research tasks
that I would like this group to help with. These are listed under the
project's Phabricator tag [1].
* T261017 - Determine basic hosting parameters for Toolhub
* T261029 - Decide on UI framework(s) to start the project with
* T261020 - Explore RTL language support issues
* T261023 - Explore content moderation issues
* T259838 - Explore translation options for Toolhub dynamic content
Feedback on these tasks is very much appreciated.
Procedurally I would like to try and keep discussion about tasks on
the tasks themselves as much as possible. I will use this mailing list
to poke the group about open issues as they come up beyond this first
set. I think we should also use the mailing list to talk about meta
issues of operating the council and for posting status updates on how
work on the project is going. We will probably find other
processes/procedures to add as we go along, but I hope we can get
started with a light weight system and only add things that we find
useful as we move along.
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/toolhub/
Bryan
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Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
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