On Sat, 2022-01-01 at 07:41 +0100, Amir Sarabadani wrote:
There is "code stewardship program" and its goal is to find owners for components that don't have an owner (or undeploy them). Sometimes it's successful, sometimes it's not. I have been asking for a maintainer for FlaggedRevs for four years now, beta cluster is suffering from a similar situation, etc. etc. It takes time to find an owner for everything, to fill the gaps in places we don't have a team to handle those (e.g. Multimedia, you can't just hand over that to team responsible for security for example). More info at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_stewardship_reviews
My very personal impression is that the Code Stewardship Review process currently lacks decision authority and senior leadership support within the WMF. It's not an engineering problem but a business problem. Decisions themselves can sometimes be easy. Making them happen not so.
andre