On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)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.)