[Labs-l] Possible Wikimedia dev summit session on best practices for bots and tools

[Bryan Davis]

I gave a talk at WikiConfNA last month called "Developing community
norms for vital bots and tools" and I have put the same topic up as a
possible session topic at the upcoming Wikimedia developer summit in
January [0].

My goals at the dev summit discussion are:
* Discuss potential "best practices" to promote to bot and tool
maintainters directly.
* Discuss features/services that Tool Labs could provide to make
following the recommended practices easier.
* Discuss how to reach bot and tool maintainers on and off wiki
* Discuss how to promote best practices to on-wiki groups that are
affected when tools and bots die due to lack of active maintainership

One of the criteria for getting a main room session is "active
discussion" prior to the event. Looking at the general topics above I
think they are all things that we could do as a group on Phabricator
and this mailing list starting now. Having face-to-face discussions
can be nice for working through small details, but the broad
discussions can often be easier with the bit of time for introspection
that async communications allow. I'd like to invite anyone with an
opinion on the topic to comment on the Phabricator ticket [0].

If I fall short of a main room session I will certainly put the topic
in for an unconference discussion for those of us who are attending
the summit and interested.

[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149312

Bryan
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