On 5 December 2015 at 00:25, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > It's been a while since we had one of these, and 2015 has been a very > busy year! :-) > > I'll quote Sumana from last time: > > > How about a little email thread for us to say nice things about each > > other? Rules: be kind, thank someone, and say why you're thanking > > them. > > [If you don't get thanked and you feel mopey, email me and I'll > > comfort you. :-)] > Some quick thank yous: - TheDJ and Brion for making some serious headway on improving and modernising our video playback; - Chris Steipp for his valiant care, attention to detail and continued passion; - Oliver K. for being a true and honest friend; - The Operations department, far too often the unsung heroes who make so much of what we do Just Work™; - Dan G. for clear and helpful advice on product management, and telling me when I'm wrong; - Salix alba, John Broughton, The Anome and many other editors who've helped us improve the editing tools we provide, in VE, in formulæ, in wikitext, in citations and further afield; - Andre for pushing me to be clearer, more open and more inclusive on Phabricator and elsewhere; - Nirzar for all his help on improving our work on design in VisualEditor and elsewhere, and Volker E. and May G. for their continued perseverance in maintaining and extending our standardisation efforts; - Sherry, Erica, Nick, Keegan, Benoît, Johan, Moushira and of course Rachel for providing as Community Liaison a strong, clear and true voice arguing for editors, holding me to promises, keeping me honest; - Reedy for helping us in his spare time, fixing the issues big and small; - Ori, Gilles, Aaron, Peter and Timo in the Performance team doing amazing things in faster shipping of faster software; - Bryan Davis for his commitment, candour and clarity of vision; - Quim and Rachel, for all they do in making in-person and online events not just great, but also better each time; - Yuri for unleashing the Graph extension on an unsuspecting cluster and giving a new way of presenting information to editors; - Greg Grossmeier and his team for capable, drama-free, reliable, dependable release engineering, and the drive to incrementally improve everything for each of us day after day and week after week; - Dan Andreescu and Aaron Halfaker for all their help, advice and support on improving our understanding of the world; - all the colleagues, volunteers and friends I've not mentioned; - … and, finally, all my teams in Editing, who've been wonderful to work with this year, including Lindsey Anne, Joe M., Thalia, Frédéric, David L., Neil, and Joel A., 'new' starters this year, and especially Trevor, our head. J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
