On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
One thing comes to mind, which may also be appropriate to the review: perhaps it would be good to have a more structured way of making suggestions to the Board. For tech issues, we have Phabricator; something along those lines might be worthwhile, as it creates a way to assess how many people are interested in a certain issue, and also whether and how it has been seen/acknowledged/is being addressed.
Absolutely, I totally agree it would be useful, it was one of the transparency improvements proposed in our internal govenance analysis, and in fact we have dscussed it with the WMF communication team in June at Wikimania - everybody agrees it would be nice to be able to track committments, follow up on issues, etc, but the only thing is that it will take some time and resources to implement, and we are a bit bottlenecked so we don't expect such a system to be ready in 2016. I certainly hope we will have it next year though.
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