Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 25/03/2015 02:45, Rob Lanphier ha scritto: Hi folks, First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) We're making a few changes effective in April

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Gilles Dubuc
Does this mean there will no longer be a multimedia team/nobody responsible or working on what the multimedia team was working on previously? We'll keep supporting the extensions that multimedia used to cover, in terms of addressing emergencies. This will probably be done by *the people

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Gilles Dubuc gil...@wikimedia.org wrote: As far as active development goes, some things are still in the pipeline, like addressing technical issues that affect UploadWizard's funnel. This is assigned to the API team but isn't the top priority for the coming

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Brian Wolff
On Mar 25, 2015 1:18 PM, Gilles Dubuc gil...@wikimedia.org wrote: Does this mean there will no longer be a multimedia team/nobody responsible or working on what the multimedia team was working on previously? We'll keep supporting the extensions that multimedia used to cover, in terms

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-25 Thread Brian Wolff
On Mar 24, 2015 10:45 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) We're making a few

[Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi folks, First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) We're making a few changes effective in April for Platform Engineering, which you all care

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread Pine W
Thanks for the updates. Speaking of multimedia, what is the likelihood of Wikipedia's capabilities supporting interactive content like Listen to Wikipedia in the near future? I can think of many articles in which reader engagement would benefit from interactive content. Thanks, Pine

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

2015-03-24 Thread S Page
A reorg that makes sense without TLA buzzword decoding \o/ (Are you sure you didn't leave out the MediaWiki Platform Community API Core Features Development team :) ) Best wishes and high hopes for y'all. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l