On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
In the next RFC meeting we would like to discuss the following RFC:
- Text extraction
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Text_extraction
The meeting will be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.org at the following time:
- UTC: Wednesday 21:00
- US PST: Wednesday 13:00
- Europe CET: Wednesday 22:00
- Australia AEDT: Thursday 08:00
Please note that the time has changed. It is an hour earlier so that it will be easier for people in Europe to attend.
We (collectively) need to get a lot better about not merely signaling what is coming up, but what the results of these decisions are. If you look here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings
...you could be forgiven for thinking the RFC meetings are something we do anymore. Basically, you have to be subscribed to this mailing list, and then, if you miss the time, fish through the logs here: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/
...and hope that some glitch hasn't wiped out the logs, since I don't think there are any service level expectations for those logs.
I send this mail not to beat up on the Architecture Committee, but in the hopes that we can find some wikignome volunteers to help out. To the extent that it's not realistic to duplicate mailing list announcements to mediawiki.org, we should probably just say "join wikitech-l to receive announcements on meeting timing", and generally, if we need to teach people how to fish rather than serving them beautifully-plated caviar, let's actually say we're doing that rather than setting up the expectation that they'll be able to wait for someone to post something on the wiki.
Anyone willing to chip in?
Rob
See a few more comments/explanations/questions at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1107 ("Document on-wiki the Architecture RfC meetings from July onwards") from a few weeks ago.