Congratulations Daniel and Victoria and everyone from the Community and Foundation who participated in this process. It's a big step forward for building software together.
-Toby On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 6:19 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de > wrote: > Hello All! > > Victoria an I would like to share some good news: > > > After we have been talking about it for years, and vetting the draft for > months, > it's finally done: the Architecture Committee has adopted a proper charter > defining its purpose, operation, and authority. > > You can find the charter here: > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Charter> > > The charter among other things defines from where the committee draws its > authority over technical development at the WMF: the committee acts as an > extension of the CTO. This gives us a clear role in the foundation's > decision > making processes. > > The charter also clarifies the scope of TechCom: it is to act as an > authority on > technical decisions regarding any official software that serves Wikimedia > users. > The committee should be involved in matters regarding such software that > are > strategic, cross-cutting, or hard to undo. > > The committee has also given itself a new name, to better fit the scope as > defined in the charter: we are now the Wikimedia Technical Committee > (TechCom). > > > Daniel Kinzler > TechCom Chair > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
