Congratulations Daniel and Victoria and everyone from the Community and
Foundation who participated in this process. It's a big step forward for
building software together.
-Toby
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de
wrote:
Hello All!
Victoria an I would like to share some good news:
After we have been talking about it for years, and vetting the draft for
months,
it's finally done: the Architecture Committee has adopted a proper charter
defining its purpose, operation, and authority.
You can find the charter here:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter>
The charter among other things defines from where the committee draws its
authority over technical development at the WMF: the committee acts as an
extension of the CTO. This gives us a clear role in the foundation's
decision
making processes.
The charter also clarifies the scope of TechCom: it is to act as an
authority on
technical decisions regarding any official software that serves Wikimedia
users.
The committee should be involved in matters regarding such software that
are
strategic, cross-cutting, or hard to undo.
The committee has also given itself a new name, to better fit the scope as
defined in the charter: we are now the Wikimedia Technical Committee
(TechCom).
Daniel Kinzler
TechCom Chair
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