2009/10/16 Alex <mrzmanwiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
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