On 07/28/2013 11:46 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
So chapters can offer to help porting tools like this to Labs and ongoing maintenance of these tools? Is there a list of such tools that have been identified as needing paid support?
It's probably worth nothing that WMDE has, in fact, already earmarked staff (and a budget) to do the migration aspect of this. Silke Meyer (I think) heads that effort.
On the other hand, there are a number of tools on which projects rely that -- even if they do not need help migrating at this moment -- could benefit from continued support. Perhaps the current efforts by the WMDE staff can be used as a model for how chapters can contribute on the engineering aspects of the projects? I'm sure they are gathering a great deal of experience in how to do this thanks to the migration efforts and the ongoing work on Wikidata.
-- Marc