Ryan Lane wrote:
It's in the strategic plan:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2010-2011_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answ...
I don't see how the link you provided addresses the post you were replying to at all.
As Roan pointed out, I was telling you that a full time Bugmeister was in the annual plan, if you had bothered to click the link, and searched for "Bugmeister".
Please don't be snide and wrong at the same time. Pick one.
I don't see anything in that link (or in the related PDF) about a Bugmeister position being full-time. (Though feel free to quote a specific section if you think I've missed something.) As I said earlier, it's pretty common for Wikimedia to hire folks on a non-full-time basis[1] (especially in tech roles), which is why I found it odd that this particular position is intended to be full-time.
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Given that Wikimedia already employs a number of contractors who don't work full-time, I think the fact that this position would be full-time is really odd.
I think a full-time position is really needed here. There are lots of bugs filed, and it's not trivial to triage them, try to extract more information from users, assign them to the right people, and make sure those people fix them. Plus, the bugmeister could actually fix some of the bugs in their spare time. Plenty of work for a full-time position.
Personally, I can't see it taking more than a few hours each week (and I say that as someone who's done a fair bit of bug triaging, assigning, and cleanup in this particular tracker). Though I suppose it's likely that the scope of the role would expand over time past Bugzilla.
From discussions with some of the people involved in creating this position,
it seems that Wikimedia is specifically looking for someone who _isn't_ a (PHP) developer because that type of person would want to fix these bugs themselves and there's a serious concern that a developer would very likely quickly get bored with the job after a few weeks. That's my understanding, at least.
MZMcBride
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors