On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> My brief thoughts: > > * It makes sense to have a handful of folks as a core review & planning > group. > > Agreed. > * However, I would consider avoiding using the term "Architect" for its > members as it's easily conflated with existing WMF job titles. I think job > titles are pretty unreliable indicators at the best of times, and of course > can be wildly inconsistent across companies. > > This. > * I've got no particular patience for over-formal community processes like > Wikipedia adminship voting, nor interest in replicating those processes. > > A million times this. > While there are plenty of problems with the traditional FOSS concept of > "meritocracy", I still have great affection for the "do-it-ocracy" notion > that folks who actually get stuff done should be recognized as fulfilling > the roles they are performing. > > People who do things are more valuable than people who only voice armchair opinions :) > As such, I'd recommend a slightly more formal role for additional "lead > reviewers" or "module owners" in the code review & RFC processes; not as > *gatekeepers* so much as to provide a next-step for getting something > moving that's stalled -- a potential contributor or a team within WMF > working on a feature should be able to easily determine who to talk to > about getting a go/no-go or advice on what to do in case of a no-go. > > (For comparison, I occasionally write patches for Firefox and Firefox OS; > they have a *really full* bug tracker and your only hope of getting a patch > reviewed is to actually request review from a particular person. A list of > module owners like <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/FirefoxOS> is a > lifesaver for a casual contributor who doesn't know everybody on the > Mozilla teams.) > So yeah, I think that's the idea behind the "Maintainers" page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers>. It could be more complete. And finding a way to involve these stakeholders in the RFC process could certainly be beneficial. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
