[Engineering] [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Code stewardship reviews, seeking feedback

Fri Jan 26 11:28:57 UTC 2018

Thanks for this initiative, I hope I can contribute in some way!

Also wanted to mention that my inbox abbreviated the subject line as "Code
stew..." which was too good to not share.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 16:29 Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup at gmail.com> wrote:

> I started the phabricator card for reviewing FlaggedRevs:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185664
> I hope I did it correctly, feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes.
>
> Best
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:39 PM Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Some background:
> >
> > The Sunsetting Working Group[0], which came out of a WMF Technology
> > manager's face-to-face after Wikimania and is made up of
> > cross-departmental members, was given the goal of determining how we
> > can reduce the set of un-, under-, or not clearly maintained code
> > running in Wikimedia production. To be clear, the goal was not to
> > "sunset" (aka: remove) all un-, under-, or not clearly maintained
> > code, but instead make an effort to resolve
> > 'stewardship'/'ownership'/'maintainership' issues as best we can.
> >
> > The process the working group devised is outlined on mediawiki.org[1].
> > In short it is: propose something to review, fill out the rubric, give
> > time for wider feedback, submit a prioritized list to the WMF Chief
> > Product and Chief Technology officers so they can make the hard
> > decisions of what to fund and how.
> >
> > This is the first time we are doing this process and we are on an
> > abbreviated schedule with respect to the Foundation Annual Planning
> > timeline. We will be doing these quarterly on a known schedule (to be
> > published at a later date) to remove any future similar time schedule
> > stress.
> >
> >
> > The point of this email:
> >
> > We have 4 reviews currently proposed[2]. They are:
> > * AbuseFilter (and dependencies)
> > * IRC RecentChanges feed
> > * RelatedSites extension
> > * TimedMediaHandler
> >
> > We are soliciting wider feedback on wiki[3]. Please leave feedback on
> > the relevant talk page.[4][5][6][7]
> >
> > Again, unfortunately our timeline is abbreviated this time around and we
> > will be closing the feedback on February 7th.
> >
> > Thank you for your feedback!
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sunsetting_Working_Group
> > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_stewardship_reviews#Process
> > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3144/
> > [3] Subpages of
> >
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_stewardship_reviews/Feedback_solicitation
> > [4]
> >
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_stewardship_reviews/Feedback_solicitation/AbuseFilter
> > [5]
> >
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_stewardship_reviews/Feedback_solicitation/IRCRecentChanges
> > [6]
> >
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_stewardship_reviews/Feedback_solicitation/RelatedSites
> > [7]
> >
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_stewardship_reviews/Feedback_solicitation/TimedMediaHandler
> >
> > --
> > | Greg Grossmeier            GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E |
> > | Release Team Manager            A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |
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