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.
= 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
=== Core team: ===
- Daniel Kinzler
- Chris Danis
- Kosta Harlan
- Moriel Schottlender (chair)
=== Executive support: ===
- Tajh Taylor
- Kate Chapman