On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
MzMcbride, I'm not sure that WMF is overstaffed, but I would like to see more specific performance metrics for some groups. The FDC commented on this as well and I hope WMF is taking that to heart. I'm pinging Garfield for comment on that portion of this discussion.
Garfield is not really the right person to ask about this. A CFO (or at least, our CFO) doesn't set or monitor performance metrics for individual teams other than his own.
Regardless, I think it's an important topic Pete. Having more community members comment on and question the yearly or quarterly goals for teams in general would be step toward the kind of feedback Gryllida mentioned in the start of the topic. If anyone is interested in digging in to this more, there's a thread on the Talk page of the WMF engineering goals for 2014-15 document, which is at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals. (There are also goals for other teams of course, but since this is an engineering-related thread I wanted to focus on just that.)