On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:27 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I asked about this "policy" a few months ago: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/058665.html.
Rob never replied and the thread died. There's a difference between having a page on MediaWiki.org and having a policy. From what I've seen, it's mostly the former, though I'd be thrilled if someone can prove me wrong.
Currently 20% is being enforced by reminders from Rob or his delegate during the days that a person's signed up for it. It's typically going towards code review or deployment support. When a person's not ponying up, Rob will escalate the issue if needed. In some cases we've created exemptions (e.g. fundraising engineering has only 2 staff right now, so they're exempt until they get a couple more engineers on board, so they can get any work done).
I'd love more metrics, of course. Do we have any git/gerrit metrics already?
Erik