On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > To keep the ball rolling, I've started a draft here, based in part on > your comments: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_process_improvement/20%25_policy
As a quick update, yesterday we had a conversation to think about how we can make this real. In this discussion, the participants were the Engineering Program Managers, Sumana and me. If you want the play-by-play, you can see Sumana's notes here: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/Dev-Process-Improvement The high level summary is that within the management group, there's consensus that this is a good idea, and that we need to make it real ASAP, principally within the parameters of the aforementioned policy page. The practical barriers are that we 1) need to ensure that we're not adding to people's existing massive workload without taking something off, in order to do this, 2) we need to plan for skills development related to code review and deployment. With regard to 1), managers are beginning conversations with their reports with regard to project allocation, and we're working towards getting every full-time engineer freed up ASAP to make that 20% commitment. With regard to 2), RobLa and Sumana are starting to think about a code review/deployment boot camp (more WMF-focused than a hackathon, but ideally with some options for remote participation) -- again, see the notes for what's been discussed so far; Rob's going to talk more about this in a couple of weeks or so (he's off next week). All best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
