Hey folks!
I have been promising this discussion for a whole month. Rather than
add a "ps I still haven't had this conversation" note to this week's
progress report to the mailing list I'm going to start this thread. :)
First I would like to thank all of you for the help you have provided
to the project so far. You may or may not see your interactions with
Srishti and I on irc, email, phabricator, or gerrit as having been
meaningful, but they were! Even beyond the tangible support, knowing
that we can reach out to each of you individually or as a group has
helped to alleviate stress about making many decisions.
I do however feel badly that I have not yet found ways to have each of
you be more meaningfully involved in shaping the project on a week to
week basis. The majority of you are here to offer advice on the user
facing aspects of the project, and although we are making a lot of
progress we really are just starting to get to these important UI and
workflow components. Our roadmap for the rest of this quarter
(January-March 2021) includes edit screens and search screens that I
hope many of you will have opinions about. Patrolling workflows will
be work that we take up in the April-June quarter along with
finalizing production deployment plans and getting sign off from the
Foundation's Security and SRE groups on the project.
I would really like to see all of you stay and get to these upcoming
milestones with us. That being said, I also want to give all of you a
chance to step back and focus on other things if this does not feel
like a good use of your time.
What are your feelings? Are you ready to continue this experiment for
another 5 months until we reach launch? Do you have any requests for
changes that would help you feel more engaged and useful in your
advisory role?
Please feel free to reply on list or only to me as you feel is
appropriate. Radical transparency is fun, but I also know that sharing
feelings in a publicly logged mailing list can be intimidating at
times.
Bryan
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Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
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