[Labs-l] Love for Labs (was: Re: Unplanned outage in progress)

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi Erik,
It would be cool when  the risc analysis that you must have for Labs is
public. It helps when we can have a look and help you reassess.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 24 February 2015 at 10:02, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you think that it would it help with the reliability of Labs if I
>> approached Damon to discuss the value of reliable tools and asking him to
>> do whatever needs to be done to improve Tools reliability?
>>
> Hey Pine --
>
> The first conversations about next fiscal's plan are starting to happen,
> and Damon and I already talked a fair bit about additional support for Labs
> -- infrastructure, development, design, management. I'm even calling this
> out as a top priority in my first round input.
>
> What would be cool is if community members created a page on Meta or
> elsewhere clarifying 1) why Labs is important (perhaps showcasing key
> examples/data), 2) what the main current pain points are, 3) what level of
> support beyond that you'd ideally like to see. I will certainly do an
> abridged version of that regardless but having a clear, strong ask from
> Wikimedians would be very valuable for the conversation. Would you be up
> for organizing something like that?
>
> In the meantime, please note that --
>
> - the *scheduled* upcoming outage is for a capacity upgrade, so as painful
> as it is, it actually is an example of us beefing up support already
> - Yuvi joined the team in spite of no planned additional hires for Labs
> this fiscal, and we're certainly open to similar internal moves if
> absolutely needed right now. That is indeed something you'd want to talk to
> Damon/MarkB about.
>
> Erik
>
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> Erik Möller
> VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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