On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Thanks very much for the heads-up. Posting the minutes or any notes from the meeting on Meta-Wiki or mediawiki.org would be fantastic.
We're taking notes on an etherpad for now; some process flowcharts are being done on a physical wall so once they're distilled onto the wiki w/ photos it should all be accessible together.
I might say that one more point to focus on specifically is to how to
leverage volunteer development (this is hinted at in some of your five points). There are _a lot_ of people who are capable of coding in PHP and who are willing to donate their time and talents, but Wikimedia/MediaWiki code development has chased them off, generally through neglect (patches sitting, review sitting, etc.). If there are ways to specifically look at that, it would be an enormous benefit to Wikimedia/MediaWiki, I think.
This is a big thing we want to solve -- current processes are very vague & laggy for a lot of stuff and only keep a fast deployment cycle for a few WMF-driven projects; this isn't because we're mean but because those are the only things that have internal drivers within WMF pushing them strongly enough; how to make sure other ongoing work gets the attention it needs too is very much on our minds.
-- brion