Talk:Admin tools development

Volunteering: Jack Phoenix
I'm not overly familiar with what a Project Manager does, nor with the AbuseFilter extension or git, but this is definitely an area where I'd like to help out! I've worked on some anti-spam/anti-vandalism extensions (ProtectSite, SpamRegex, regexBlock and Phalanx, to name a few) before and I know from experience that this area of MediaWiki is in need of love.

MediaWiki needs to have some sort of anti-spam mechanism in core, and this would also give me a nice excuse to clean up Phalanx and release it. Let me know if I can be of use. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:42, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Jack, we're in the process of defining what exactly we want this person to do, and how particular we want to be about choosing someone to do this. The biggest reason to be particular is because we want someone who can say, with some level of authority, "issue A is more important than issue B" given any particular issue A and B that affects admins.  Since there's likely to be disagreement on this, I think it'll be important to deputize one person for this role as the tiebreaker.
 * Anyway, if you've got a little time to help out now, the most pressing issue is probably finding all of the bugs that fall into this category, and linking them up with the list we created (adding new items as appropriate). If there's any high priority items, ping us directly in email or on wiki.  Thanks! -- RobLa-WMF (talk) 19:31, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, if that's what you're after, Jack Phoenix would indeed probably be quite helpful if you'll give him a chance, being both a wiki admin on several projects as well as our favourite resident dev some vague place I can't mention... and he's here. That helps. Right? -— Isarra ༆ 21:09, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Let me be clear here....we're not presupposing a candidate, and from what I've seen, I think Jack would be awesome. I just don't want to presume that Jack is going to be the only person to come forward, and I want to make sure process is not "Jack just happened to notice the wiki page at the right time and responded first".  But, we can deputize Jack for a short period (say the next 2 months), and then work out a process for how we want to do this moving forward.  This is really a very nascent idea to even do anything like this, so we don't have a lot of the details sorted out.  Does that make sense?  -- RobLa-WMF (talk) 21:49, 30 July 2012 (UTC)