On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)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