On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:45:58AM -0700, Quim Gil wrote:
- wikitech.wikimedia.org would become the one and only site for our
open source software contributors, powered by semantic software and an ontology of categories shared across wiki pages, Bugzilla and hopefully Gerrit.
This is excellent. We recently had the merger of labsconsole and wikitech and this is a great (and ambitious!) next step. Kudos.
One thing that I'd like to see though -and which I think is central to the success of your proposal- would be allocation of more engineering resources for wikitech. Ryan and Andrew are doing an excellent job by holding the fort almost by themselves, but if we're to do this, I'd like to see more of an effort and commitment by other people/teams.
Having the same person do UI, sole maintainership of OpenStack & authentication MW extensions and operations/upgrade for the wiki (among a million other things), just doesn't cut it. Both the labsconsole and wikitech experiences had smaller or larger several issues and while the recent efforts as part of the merger alleviated some of them, we still have a long way to go. For example, I think some of OSM pages' in particular could use some help from UX experts -- no offence to Ryan, I'm sure I'd do worse; but UX is in neither of our job descriptions.
Incorporating wikitech to the regular platform processes (deployments & version updates, configs etc.) would also be needed if we want to do a reasonable job and provide contributors with a maintained platform. From lagging MediaWiki versions to IPv6, wikitech is just not on the same level of support as the rest of the cluster right now.
Regards, Faidon