On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > LevelUp is a mentorship program that will start in January 2013 and that > replaces the "20% time" policy > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_20%25_policy for > Wikimedia Foundation engineers. Technical contributors, volunteer or > staff, have the opportunity to participate; see > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/LevelUp for more details. > > We started 20% time to ensure that Wikimedia Foundation engineers would > spend at least 20% of each week on tasks that directly serve the > Wikimedia developer and user community, including bug triage, code > review, extension review, documentation, urgent bugfixes, and so on. It > had various flaws. 1 day every week, I made people task-switch and it > got in the way of their deadlines, and it was perceived as a chore that > always needed doing. > > It felt like enforcing a rota to do the dishes. So instead, let's build > a dishwasher. :-) We can cross-train each other and fill in the empty > rows on the maintainership table > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers so our whole > community gains the capacity to get stuff done faster. > > If you've been frustrated because of code review delays, I want you to > sign up for LevelUp -- by March 2013 you could be a comaintainer of a > codebase and be merging and improving other people's patchsets, which > will give them more time and incentive to merge yours. :-) > > When I asked what people wanted to learn, I got a variety of responses > -- including "MediaWiki in general", "puppet", "networking", and "JS, > PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL" -- all of which you can learn through LevelUp. > When I asked how you wanted to learn, all of you said you wanted > real-life, hands-on work with mentors who could answer your questions. > Here you go. :-) > > I won't be starting the matchmaking process in earnest till I come back > from the Thanksgiving break on Monday, but I will reply to talk page > messages and emails then. :-) > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I know they just came from the bugzilla descriptions (which really need to be updated in some cases), but some of the component descriptions are just funny: *API: RESTful Web-based API that lets people interact with MediaWiki programmatically *Job queue (available since 1.21) (They're funny because the API isn't RESTful and the Job Queue isn't new in 1.21). -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
