Greetings everyone!

Following up on the April update
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/AYILLCY2SZMIOS4MSYXKQHSWU2JAGFYR/>
from the Code Ownership Working Group on Service Ownership, we wanted to
share some progress.

Over the past several months, we've worked through the Wikimedia production
environment to document services and identify the WMF teams responsible for
some of them. That work is now reflected in the *Service Catalog*
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog> page:
it has been updated with team ownership for the services we've assessed so
far and incorporates most of the information found on the
mw:Developers/Maintainers
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog&oldid=8606967>
and mw:Upstream_projects
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Upstream_projects&oldid=8543190>
pages.

We have published this Service Catalog by updating the
mw:Developers/Maintainers page and renaming it to
Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog. This ensures we have exactly one copy
of the ownership information and everyone is operating off the same
information.

A couple of things worth being clear about:

This is a work in progress, not a finished inventory. Some services now
have a clearly assigned owning team; many others are still being worked
through and this will take time. As we said in April, we expect to narrow
the set of unowned services gradually, prioritized by risk — not all at
once. That said, we have already found owners for 6 critical/high-risk
previously unowned services and a few more are expected to be owned in the
coming weeks.

The process is now in place; the coverage will keep growing. What's changed
is that there's now a repeatable way to assign and record team ownership,
and that ownership reflects an ongoing commitment for a service’s entire
lifecycle, even in the event of reorganization and other changes.

If you maintain or contribute to a service and don't see it reflected
accurately on the Service Catalog  page – or don't see it listed at all  –
please reach out on the Talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog>
so we can correct or add it.

As before, questions and clarifications are welcome on the Talk pages of
the Service Ownership Roles and Responsibilities
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog/Ownership_Roles_and_Responsibilities>
and FAQ
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Production/Service_Catalog/FAQ>
pages which contain more background details.

Reuven, on behalf of the Code Ownership Working Group @ WMF.

-- 
*Reuven Lazarus *(he/him)
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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