Hi Sumanah,
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:39:19PM -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals#Wikimedia...
The Engineering Community Team has some draft goals for what we'd like to achieve in the next 12 months. We'll still be running Bugzilla, putting out the monthly report, running GSoC and OPW, and doing those other continuous tasks (as you can follow at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering#Engineering_Co... ). But what else should we be concentrating on? This is a draft of what we'd like to focus on, quarter by quarter.
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I welcome your comments here or on the talk page.
Back in April, Quim made a proposal on this list for a plan to attract new contributors that included a "deeper restructuring of our community spaces", including a reshuffling/repurposing of wikitech/mediawiki.org.
I think the outcome of that discussion was to run an experiment and reevaluate, but I might have lost track -- the Wikitech contributors RFC[1] shows no real updates since April though.
A deeper restructuring sounds like goal material. Is this under consideration for the coming year?
Personally, I'd love to see some movement in the wikitech/mediawiki split, I think it becomes increasingly important the further we invest into projects such as Wikimedia Labs/Tool Labs and bridging the gap between operations and software development.
Thanks, Faidon
1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikitech_contributors