2009/10/16 Alex mrzmanwiki@gmail.com:
What exactly is William going to be doing?
For one thing, hand-hold the process until the technology is rolled out, since there is nobody else internally who can actually devote any attention to it - Brion just left the organization, so we have a CTO vacancy to fill, plus several other key vacancies, and an upcoming fundraiser, etc. The project needs focused attention.
Secondly, while the technology is basically feature-complete at least for the flagged protection part, the configuration used on en.wp is unique: it's a per-page approach to FlaggedRevs. The flagged protection functionality was integrated into the page protection UI by Aaron just very recently, for example, and we need to systematically assess things like labels, icons, and workflows together with the community, which will require a few further changes to the extension as well. Again, this is about coordinating this process.