Hi everyone,
I regret to inform you all that Mark Hershberger will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of May.
Mark started as a contractor at the beginning of 2010, helping the Wikimedia Foundation with code review and the release process. He developed an interest in our testing infrastructure, and was responsible for some of the early work in phpUnit and Selenium integration in our codebase. In early 2011, we reconceived his role here at the Foundation, asking him to step into the role of Bugmeister. During the past year and a half, Mark has undertaken the daunting task of going through the mountainous backlog of bug reports and patches, as well as the incoming stream of new bugs. Additionally, he has pushed us to review our backlog of code review through three deployments now.
Mark has been a passionate advocate for community developers, and hasn't shied away from asking for what they need. He has been a friendly and approachable representative for WMF; enthusiastic and cheerful with everyone he deals with. Thank you, Mark, for setting this example!
We plan to start recruiting for a new Bugmeister soon. I'll post more details when I have them.
In the meantime, please join me in thanking Mark for his service to the Wikimedia movement.
Rob
Mark, thanks for helping Wikipedia and good luck whereever you go!
Yeah Mark, It was great to have worked with you, I am sorry that I did not have more time for wikipedia myself, but such is life.
mike
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
Mark, thanks for helping Wikipedia and good luck whereever you go!
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He was always ready to ajudar to when I had a bummer to talk =D
I think hard to find someone with the power to put up with me =P
2012/3/16 Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com
Yeah Mark, It was great to have worked with you, I am sorry that I did not have more time for wikipedia myself, but such is life.
mike
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
Mark, thanks for helping Wikipedia and good luck whereever you go!
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* ajudar = help (jajaja my portuguese)
2012/3/16 Raylton P. Sousa raylton.sousa@gmail.com
He was always ready to ajudar to when I had a bummer to talk =D
I think hard to find someone with the power to put up with me =P
2012/3/16 Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com
Yeah Mark, It was great to have worked with you, I am sorry that I did not have more time for wikipedia myself, but such is life.
mike
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
Mark, thanks for helping Wikipedia and good luck whereever you go!
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On 16.03.2012, 21:31 Rob wrote:
Hi everyone,
I regret to inform you all that Mark Hershberger will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of May.
Mark, thank you for everything - and may all your greener pastures be evergreen!
Mark, you rock! It was nice getting to know you these past few months. Sad to see you go.
Take care man.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 16.03.2012, 21:31 Rob wrote:
Hi everyone,
I regret to inform you all that Mark Hershberger will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of May.
Mark, thank you for everything - and may all your greener pastures be evergreen!
-- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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Hi all I thought that his role must have been one of most boring like the walking through a lot of various reports and trying to make some lazy developers to fix them ;-) but i was surprised that when I started to work with him thas the work we did was almost most entertaining experience I had on wikimedia ever. Seriously I always felt like he is underappreciated for the hard work he did. Thanks to Mark I got in contact with lot of awesome people inluding himself and found that being a bugmeister is not a boring work but important part of development process. Thanks for your hard work! I hope ur not leaving the project definitely and stay at least as a volunteer who can help us even if not so actively On Mar 16, 2012 9:02 PM, "Rob Moen" rmoen@wikimedia.org wrote:
Mark, you rock! It was nice getting to know you these past few months. Sad to see you go.
Take care man.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 16.03.2012, 21:31 Rob wrote:
Hi everyone,
I regret to inform you all that Mark Hershberger will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of May.
Mark, thank you for everything - and may all your greener pastures be evergreen!
-- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all I thought that his role must have been one of most boring like the walking through a lot of various reports and trying to make some lazy developers to fix them ;-) but i was surprised that when I started to work with him thas the work we did was almost most entertaining experience I had on wikimedia ever. Seriously I always felt like he is underappreciated for the hard work he did. Thanks to Mark I got in contact with lot of awesome people inluding himself and found that being a bugmeister is not a boring work but important part of development process. Thanks for your hard work! I hope ur not leaving the project definitely and stay at least as a volunteer who can help us even if not so actively
I fully agree. Mark turned this uninteresting job into something actually motivating. No bug was too stupid to take care of it and research. He also did some testing which was very helpful. I have to admit Mark's work motivated me to do a bit more with MediaWiki!
//Saper
On 16/03/12 21:02, Rob Moen wrote:
Mark, you rock! It was nice getting to know you these past few months. Sad to see you go.
Take care man.
We will miss you. It won't be easy to get a good bugmeister. Thanks for your work, Mark.
Best wishes
Am Freitag, 16. März 2012 schrieb Rob Lanphier:
In the meantime, please join me in thanking Mark for his service to the Wikimedia movement.
Mark, thank you for helping me with the Score extension. I wish you the best of success in your future projects!
Best regards, Alexander
On 03/16/2012 01:31 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
Mark has been a passionate advocate for community developers, and hasn't shied away from asking for what they need. He has been a friendly and approachable representative for WMF; enthusiastic and cheerful with everyone he deals with. Thank you, Mark, for setting this example!
I second this strongly. Mark, you have our gratitude. You've always had our community at the front of your thoughts and your heart. Thank you.
Thanks hexmode, for helping make this community welcoming and awesome to me as a Volunteer dev.
Thanks, Mark! You were one of my first contacts in the wmdev community and made me feel very welcome here.
Cheers, Markus
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