[Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

Brion Vibber brion at wikimedia.org
Mon Aug 10 00:57:08 UTC 2009


On 8/7/09 5:43 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal
> discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web ops
> side - it's not well documented now (I keep meaning to find out more
> about the ops team and finding I have no time to join the IRC channel
> 24x7 ;-P ).  The team seems to function well - servers seem decently
> stable - but it's not clear to me if the process and documentation is
> up to industry standards for large website operations.  At some point
> tribal knowledge has to yield to documentation and process and
> organizational knowledge.

Oh yes, this is already very much an ongoing process as we've been 
increasing the ops staff this last year.

-- brion




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