Message: 4 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:31:56 -0700 From: Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Mark Hershberger departing Wikimedia Foundation       in May Message-ID:       CAPzpXh6xKcwnJ04JqMO7YcanHYUYSvtH-f3kaJv5xUO-YV5nkQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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

:'(

You will be very deeply missed. I wish you the best of luck in whatever you decide to do next.

-bawolff