The general goal of this process is to revise the Wikimedia Technical Community technical decision-making process to ensure that it:
- involves relevant stakeholders
- results in long-term productive technical decisions
- decisions are documented
This is phase one of two. Phase one is gathering input and feedback. The second phase will be dealing with implementing changes and adjustments based on the conclusions from the current stage.
NOTE: Stakeholders who are most likely to find this relevant: People who do technical work that affects others in the Wikimedia environment: Contribute code to MediaWiki and our production code or who rely on production code for their code or tools.
Objectives
The objectives of this retro and consultation are to
- Understand what are the expectations and needs of stakeholders from a decision-making process
- Figure out who are the relevant stakeholders
- WMF staff
- WMDE and other affiliate staff
- Volunteer developer community
- Determine what type of decisions involve specific sub-groups of stakeholders
- Design consultation with stakeholders to collect their expectations from technical decision-making
- Distill the results of the consultation to a set of conclusions that lead to actionable changes in the decision-making process
More information
MediaWiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Technical_Decision-Making_Process_Retrospective_and_Consultation_plan