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Goal: Drive more complex long-term tasks closer to resolution
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More complex tasks which involve several teams/areas and agreement on the way forward sometimes gain momentum but often momentum gets lost again.

Currently as a bugwrangler I don't have a very convincing concept to keep long-term tasks on my radar and help getting them done. I ping occasionally, but that's it.

I'd like to try keeping such tasks more on my radar, picking a limited number, and working with teams, developers, product managers to get such tasks closer and faster to resolution.

In Q3/2015, I'd like to try assigning three technical tasks to myself and driving them to resolution by gettting stakeholders involved and keeping them constantly on my radar.
This obviously requires commitment from the various stakeholders too.
If this works out I'll document good and bad experience and invite others to follow that path.

Tasks to try with:

Needs/welcomes syncing with German-Community-Wishlist and Community-Tech.

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Aklapper renamed this task from Start driving more complex long-term tasks closer to resolution to Goal: Start driving more complex long-term tasks closer to resolution.Jun 30 2015, 4:45 PM
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I'm personally putting the "Driving" part on the backburner because I'd first like to evaluate the approaches of Community-Tech who are working on T105942: Come up with potential criteria for scoring project/task ideas / T107833: Build an initial work backlog for Community Tech based on one or more existing community wishlists and getting some input from WMDE's WMDE-TechWish based on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche (currently being translated to English).
I'm happy to help (and I do, e.g. by going through the translation with BMueller) but there should not be three parties trying to achieve the very same goals (which wasn't foreseeable when I created this task in the middle of June).

Per my last comment, I'm declining this task as the situation has changed a lot since I created this task - we now have two teams dedicated to driving popular outstanding long-term tasks to resolution.

Obviously I'm always around for these teams to provide help (I've had conversations with folks involved in/with both teams plus commented on some of their tasks), support and input. I'm also glad that these teams have development/engineering resources.