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
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Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
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