Report on the Toolhub project for the week ending 2021-10-01
See the on-wiki progress report [0] for additional details and clickable links.
== TL;DR == * Crawler working in production * Metawiki help documents * Deploy date picked!
We have chosen Wednesday 2021-10-13 as the official launch date for Toolhub. The team is now working on drafting emails and other announcement messages to send to the Wikimedia community on that day and in the days following to promote the project widely.
It has been a long journey from a skeleton project in September 2020 to getting everything working in the production Kubernetes cluster this past week. Next week we will announce the official Toolhub URL and it's features to the entire Wikimedia movement. This closes the initial chapter of the project, but is really just the start of making Toolhub the project that the movement has asked for and deserves. Bryan would like to thank everyone, and there have been many of you, who has helped keep the project alive and progressing over the past year and beyond. The team is very excited for the conversations and work to come as we continue to build this project together.
To all of you who have been following and participating in this mailing list, thank you. I have not reached out to the list for help too often in the last year, but each time I did folks responded and helped move us forward. I'm not sure what the list or the advisory board will look like in the future, but I hope that we will have more developers join the project and continue to have others around to help the developers and project managers understand the many interesting and complex needs and expectations of the Wikimedia community.
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Progress_reports/2021-10-08
Bryan
toolhub-dev@lists.wikimedia.org