On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Re https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Sysadmin_hubhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sysadmin_hub
On 01/08/2013 02:52 AM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
That page is for MediaWiki sysadmins, not for Wikimedia sysadmins.
Yes, I know, but put yourself in the feet of a skilled and goodwilling sysadmin landing at mediawiki.org and willing to contribute. If there is a "Sysadmin Hub" promoted in the homepage and pushed in the search resultst then that is probably the page s/he will visit sooner or later. Either we improve that page to include relevant links to sysadmins willing to contribute, or we create a different landing page, or...
Re Labs and opportunities to contribute
Thank you for the update on labs and the current (little) chances to get involved in Wikimedia sysadmin tasks.
However, is that really all? Is there anything a sysadmin could help with at https://toolserver.org/ , the many bots, products / components in bugzilla, support to other MediaWiki syadmins?
I'm just a very basic hobbyist sysadmin for my MediaWiki pet project [1] so
I can't hardly put myself in the skin of a proper sysadmin willing to volunteer. But there must be something this kind of profile can do to get involved in MediaWiki - Wikimedia tech? Now all we seem to have are Wikimedia manual pages.
PS: but ok, I will put this task back to my backlog until Labs and the whole idea of sysadmin contributors is more mature. In the meantime your feedback and help is welcome in this thread or
https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Talk:Sysadmin_hubhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Sysadmin_hub https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Talk:How_to_contributehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:How_to_contribute
Actually, the first goal of Labs was to provide a means for operations volunteers to contribute. It's one of the easier things to do in Labs currently. Contributing to our beta infrastructure isn't the only thing someone can do to help out with our infrastructure.
We have nearly 150 projects in Labs. Some of them are development related, but a large number are for improving infrastructure in production. Here's some projects that are infrastructure related:
* analytics * ganglia * gerrit * gluster * integration * maps * nginx * openstack * otrs * packaging * pediapress * performance * puppet * puppet-cleanup * ... about 2x more
There's a list of TODO items: < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs#TODO%3E
There's a list of proposals: < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs#Proposals%3E
There's a list of Labs infrastructure bugs: < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=171774&resolution=---...
I think what we're mostly missing is a quick list of easy things to do or fix as a call to action.
- Ryan