User:Zakgreant/Report/2010/07/08/Log

Participated various WikiSym open spaces sessions + lots of discussions with fellow participants.

Coordinated open space session on the MediaWiki docs (thanks to Danese for taking notes)

MediaWiki/Wikipedia Ops Docs Jam
Notes from OpenSpace Session 2:00pm Thursday, 8 July 2010

Attendees

 * Danese Cooper
 * Mark Hershberger
 * Michael J. Barany
 * Roan Kattouw

Goals
For Developer-Facing Docs:
 * Make it easier for Volunteer Devs to extend and use MediaWiki
 * Set up the Docs as a tool to move the Volunteer Dev Community towards higher competency (begin as we'd like to continue...in tone and general norms of addressing future devs*)
 * Writing for Audience (Roan suggests looking at TimS's "Security for Developers" memo). Discussion of the levels of programming that go on...Hooks vs. the Caching Layer for instance
 * Documentation on existing extensions - probably a focus for later. The ones used at WMF should be held to a higher standard.  CentralAuth a very bad example, relies on SiteConfiguration to work, but this fact isn't mentioned.

For Ops Docs:
 * Memorialize decisions, config changes
 * Supplement / fix existing docs to support crisis action
 * Educate next round of SysOps
 * Shorten time to useful contribution

Suggestions

 * Standard URLs for each code / feature element
 * Marking code for flaws such as poor security
 * Log bot for mediawiki_security to catch crisis interventions for later documentation
 * Discussion of various bots that already run...
 * Discussion of bug system
 * Shell access?