Update our team page to reflect the teams core values. But first iterate our core values. I think we can use release engineering as a starting point:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/About
Document WIP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sm9J5mzPfelJzycYrXvl9MtqFDmqTnicDRAa5p03Yls/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.c5xtg0yeoevu
Is there something in that values section that we want to change?
AC:
The release team values converted to ours would look like this:
I would like to change Disagree without animosity . I think you need to be an native English speaker to know what animosity means :) What about Respectfully disagree?
@Peter — I do respectfully disagree. The word animosity has clear cognates in several Romance languages due to their common Latin origin. Examples include:
| Language | Cognate |
|---|---|
| Spanish | animosidad |
| French | animosité |
| Italian | animosità |
| Portuguese | animosidade |
| Romanian | animozitate |
All these words derive from the Latin root animositas, sharing a similar meaning related to “hostility” or “ill will.”
@Bugreporter2: That feels irrelevant if the user does not have a background in these languages. This task is instead about keeping English simple whenever possible.
Added a Google Docs for people who want to comment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sm9J5mzPfelJzycYrXvl9MtqFDmqTnicDRAa5p03Yls/
I think for us it could be in our documentation we write and also in how we communicate in meetings. We can rewrite that to be more clear (or remove it).
I will not add the core values to our page. I will move that task back to the backlog and then I want us to discuss it when we meet at the offsite. I feel writing back and forth in the document isn't optimal, I rather want us to discuss it face to face.