Aaron Schulz now full-time at Wikimedia Foundation - Wikitech-l

31 Aug 2011

Hi everyone,

I’m extremely pleased to welcome Aaron Schulz to Wikimedia Foundation
as a full-time developer in Platform Engineering.  Aaron is a
long-time MediaWiki developer, starting as a volunteer in 2007.  He
quickly proved adept at working with the FlaggedRevs extension, so WMF
hired him as a student contractor to take on development, and is now
still the primary developer of the FlaggedRevs extension in use on
many of our larger wikis today.  More recently, he volunteered a lot
of the initial work on IPv6 compliance, and has made many small fixes
and improvement in the MediaWiki core.  Aaron has been so active in
MediaWiki in the past few years that 5,527 of the 95,732 revisions in
our main source code repository have his name on them.[1]

This summer, Aaron continued his student contractor work on our
software deployment infrastructure, working on the Heterogeneous
Deployment project, which we plan to use to roll out MediaWiki 1.18 in
a controlled manner in September.  He's one of many developers who is
slogging away at reviewing code commits in anticipation of 1.18, and
will generally be working on operational and performance-oriented
projects.

Welcome, Aaron!

Rob
[1] See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/author/aaron