Aloha MZMcBride, Greetings All,
Thanks for the nudge! Feedback is an essential part of a healthy feedback loop. :)
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 20:43, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Nobody seems to have replied to this thread in about a week, which I think indicates a problem, so I'm gonna poke a bit here.
The report is on my radar (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zakgreant/Log/2010-09-23), but is just one of many things that I should be doing. I'll take a look in at the page in a few minutes. For my part, I'm keeping my daily logs and weekly reports as a way to help ensure that interested folks can follow along with what I'm working on.
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For October, we'd like to draft this in public so as to get the information out a little sooner, and to give you all the opportunity to help out. Here's where we're drafting this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Engineering_Overview_October_2010
There's been no activity on that page since September 23 (a few hours after this thread was started). It's nearly October 1. To me, that indicates a problem.
What kind of problem(s) do you feel that there are?
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The current reality is that the paid developers/sysadmins have been isolated from the community. You seem to be essentially asking people to guess or make-up the current status of a lot of these projects, most of which aren't even known about outside paid developers/sysadmins (the Virginia data center, improved ops monitoring, etc.).
For my part, I thought that this was RobLa nudging everyone in the know – staff included, as they should be on this list – to update. He's also nudged me directly to do my part. I'd guess that he's done this with others as well.
Wikimedia has been having weekly (or fortnightly) status meetings about most of the items you listed on MediaWiki.org, but the notes are being held on Wikimedia's installation of EtherPad. Either document this EtherPad installation (I'm not even sure if the URL is supposed to be public, so I'll omit it here) or stop using it and post all of the notes directly on MediaWiki.org. These notes in EtherPad are (by far) the most up-to-date and helpful pages for tracking the status of projects that I've seen, but I doubt more than a dozen people outside of Wikimedia Foundation staff have any idea they exist. Though, perhaps a bit ironically, I haven't seen (m)any ops-related notes on EtherPad, as far as I remember, so that still might be an area in which only one or two people can give an accurate update.
I took notes during the last general engineering team meeting. I thought that consensus was to publish them.
I'll nudge folks asap to get that done or at least sorted out.
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Cheers!