I started making lists, deleting, changing, and so on, but now I'm not sure I had the right idea at the beginning.

I *think* what might actually be useful is an explicit "(tech) lead" column on our quarterly goal page, eg https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q1 .

I don't think we need a tech lead for every piece of software we maintain. And as I was making lists I realized after the top 3ish things we work on, the rest is group maintained without an explicit owner which is A Good Thing. And at that point, anything that would identify "leaders" for those down-ticket things would end up just being yet-another Skill Matrix.

I'll bring this back up in our team meeting and see if people agree.

agree at least we have identified that the bulk of our projects are team shared and the few epic ones already have natural leaders :-}

In T139540#2485589, @greg wrote:

I *think* what might actually be useful is an explicit "(tech) lead" column on our quarterly goal page, eg https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q1 .

See: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team%2FGoals%2F201617Q1&type=revision&diff=2196830&oldid=2181515

(not a column, but just "(Lead)" next to the appropriate name)