<div dir="ltr">Hoi Erik,<div>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.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div> GerardM</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 February 2015 at 10:02, Erik Moeller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">erik@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Pine W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wiki.pine@gmail.com" target="_blank">wiki.pine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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?</p></blockquote>Hey Pine --<br><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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? </div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime, please note that --</div><div><br></div><div>- 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</div><div>- 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.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Erik</div><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Erik Möller<br>VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation</div></div>
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