Hi All, I'm writing to let you know that the deadline to comment has been extended to the 16th of November. You'll see there is some discussion happening already on the talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Proposal_for_a_Technical_Decision_Making_Process>
I'm particularly interested in hearing from folks outside of the Wikimedia Foundation. - Do you have questions or comments on the representation of the technical community by independent +2s? - Have you previously engaged in the TechCom process? Does this evolution better support your needs? - Does this seem relevant to the areas of our technology you build? - Any specific areas I can further clarify? Thanks, -Kate On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 4:11 PM Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Over the past months I've been looking at how we make technical decisions. > Wikimedia has significantly grown as a technical movement over the years and > similar to how we scaled our technical systems we need to scale our human > systems. I've proposed an evolution of the existing TechCom process. This is > based on the past couple years that I've been involved in the facilitation of > TechCom and research into decision making frameworks. I'm looking for your > feedback over the next three weeks (until 5 November) to help me improve the > proposed process. > > Key objectives of this evolved process is: > > - Make the process more inclusive by shifting to representation by > teams/groups instead of individuals > - Have clear timelines for when a decision will be made > - Being clear upfront about what stakeholders will be engaged > - Developing a clear lifecycle of a decision > > This plan also introduces: > > - Technical Decision Forum which will be composed of representatives of teams > from Product and Tech, WMDE and independent +2 contributors. > - Templates for decision statement overviews and decision records > > Please see the draft process here: > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Proposal_for_a_Technical_Decision_Making_Process> > > If you have questions or further feedback please use the talk page: > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Proposal_for_a_Technical_Decision_Making_Process> > > Thanks, > > -Kate > -- > Kate Chapman (she/her/hers) > Director of Architecture, Architecture Team > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] -- Kate Chapman (she/her/hers) Director of Architecture, Architecture Team Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
